Chapter 20 Flashcards
What was the main economic activity in New France?
Founded a navigational school on the coast of Portugal.
Who conquered the Aztec empire?
Hernando Cortes.
Why did Europeans see Africans as a better source of labor than Native Americans?
Africans were strangers in America and would not have allies or places to hide.
What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?
Funding colonies in the Americas.
Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
An island in the Caribbean.
What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?
Cheap labor source.
What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?
New wealth from Americas and growth of overseas trade.
Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Spain.
According to the policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase its wealth?
Sell more goods than it buys from other countries .
An economic system based on private ownership of property and the investment of wealth to earn a profit is called?
Capitalism.
Most European joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s were founded for the purpose of what?
Funding colonies.
This group founded the colony known as Massachusetts Bay.
Puritans.
