Class 5

Question 1

Who comes up with the terminology of Mercantilism?

Answer 1

Adam Smith

Question 2

Define mercantilism

Answer 2

The state should enact policies that create positive trade inflows

Question 3

Mercantilism says that wealth if…

Answer 3

finite, so trade is zero-sum

Question 4

In mercantilism, why do colonies exist?

Answer 4

To enrich the metropole

Question 5

WHat does autarchy mean?

Answer 5

Society should be completely closed-off, self-sufficient. (Sell everything, import nothing)

Question 6

T or F: The line between legal and illegal piracy in the 17th century is very clear

Answer 6

False, it was blurry

Question 7

Why was contraband popular at that time?

Answer 7

Contraband was offering bette prizes in general

Question 8

What ships were the best targets for pirate?

Answer 8

British

Question 9

What did pirate depend on to continue their activity?

Answer 9

landed communities that wanted to engage with trade

Question 10

Why was the increase of trade in 18th centure a cause of the pirates decline?

Answer 10

Those landed communities were not willing to deal with them anymore

Question 11

What helped the connection between the West Indies and the 13 colonies?

Answer 11

Piracy

Question 12

T or F: gold remained one of the most important trade good.

Answer 12

False, sugar or tobacco became way more popular. that’s what caused piracy decline

Question 13

What trade connected the 13 colonies and France?

Answer 13

Fur trade

Question 14

What french company had a monopoly on fur?

Answer 14

Compagnie des Indes

Question 15

As the West indies became plantation colonies…

Answer 15

they became more reliant to North American food imports

Question 16

What is the definition of exclusive system?

Answer 16

All ships had to be dealing with the direct metropole and no one else

Question 17

Which of the 13 colonies was a major destination for contraband trade

Answer 17

Rhode Island

Question 18

Which French settlement was the main destination for trade (and smuggling)?

Answer 18

Louisbourg

Question 19

Why was Louisbourg the best destination (in a maritime sense)?

Answer 19

You didn’t have to navigate the Saint Laurent, which was no easy task.

Question 20

What increased Britain’s borrowing capacity

Answer 20

The creation of the Bank of England

Question 21

T or F: Because of its small population, Britain was a minor imperial power

Answer 21

False, Britain was a major imperial power despite the population size

Question 22

On what is based the Common law?

Answer 22

A system of jurisprudence (laws are created on the basis of individual decisions, judges have to follow anterior decisions of tribunals)

Question 23

Of what does the Navigation act of 1696 consist?

Answer 23

Tightens metropolitan control over colonial economic affairs (building on the Navigation act of 1651)
Creation of vice-admiralty courts

Question 24

Doest admiralty courts follow the Common Law?

Answer 24

NO, that’s why they were so hated

Question 25

What is the task of the Board and secretary of state for the southern department, 1696?

Answer 25

Responsible (in a very loose sens) of administrating the colonies.

Question 26

Every colonial decision had to pass through the Board, to make sure…

Answer 26

it wasn’t against any British rule

Question 27

T or F: The Board had a real significant power over the colonies

Answer 27

False, English colonies were independent of dealing with their affairs

Question 28

What causes tobacco to become a commodity people can afford?

Answer 28

The Chesapeake and Virginia increase their number of exports since they have a lot of surplus.

Question 29

WHat percentage of the Black enslaved people reaching the ENglish North colonies went to the Carolinas?

Answer 29

50%

Question 30

Were Black people involved in the Yamasee war?

Answer 30

Yes, they fought on both English and indigenous sides.

Question 31

What was the last of the 13 colonies to be created?

Answer 31

Georgia in 1732

Question 32

What was prohibited to make Georgia model colony (of white people)?

Answer 32

Slavery and alcohol

Question 33

Why did Georgia finally become more like the Carolinas?

Answer 33

Spain tried to invade it

Question 34

Why did Virginian society become a Slave society?

Answer 34

Decline of white indentures and explosion of importation of enslaved people

Question 35

What was the last english colony to be created in North America?

Answer 35

Nova Scotia

Question 36

What caused the Great Awakening / creation of colonial universities?

Answer 36

The revival of religious sentiment Universities were created to train new ministers

Question 37

Around … millions of Africans were transported to the Americas

Answer 37

12

Question 38

What is the particularity of Tans-Atlantic slave trade?

Answer 38

For the first time in history, a laaaarge scale commodification of human beings occured

Question 39

T or F: Slavery in the roman empire was related to race

Answer 39

False, there wasn’t a large consciousness of ideologies before in Europe

Question 40

What were the moral justifications of enslaving people

Answer 40

Racialization: Black people were inferior Europeans task was not to capture slaves, they made it someone else’s

Question 41

What was Negroland?

Answer 41

A legal fiction that create a “nation” for African people

Question 42

Why didn’t Europeans go to Africa before?

Answer 42

They were dying pf tropical diseases (like Malaria for example)

Question 43

Name different african states

Answer 43

Kingdom of Dahomey Ashanti Empire Kingdom of Kongo

Question 44

T or F: Catholicism didn’t exist in Africa before European contact?

Answer 44

False, the King of Kongo converted din 1485

Question 45

What is the Middle passage?

Answer 45

Part of the triangular trade that implied African travel across the Atlantic Sea

Question 46

What legally constructed, among other things, Race and Slavery?

Answer 46

Black codes

Question 47

Where was the first Black code created?

Answer 47

Barbados

Question 48

Where were Black enslaved people first turned into strict commodities

Answer 48

Jamaica

Question 49

What was the initial necessity of a Black code

Answer 49

They wanted to clarify that difference between African slaves and whites indentured servants

Question 50

In what do the sugar plantations differ from traditional agriculture?

Answer 50

Labor is strictly regulated ans every labourer has a unique role

Question 51

T or F: Sugar becomes one of many productions in the colonies

Answer 51

False, it overtakes the other productions

Question 52

Examples of slave rebellions?

Answer 52

NY slave insurrection Stono rebellion

Question 53

What the largest sales uprising during the colonial period?

Answer 53

Stono rebellion ( it leaded to the South Carolina act)