Unit 2 Review

Question 1

Describe Spanish Colonial policies (goals, economic activities, relations with Natives)

Answer 1

1. Conquest, extract wealth, spread Christianity
2. Sugar, tobacco, coffee, gold, silver
3. Encomienda/casta systems, mixed with Natives heavily

Question 2

Describe French Colonial policies (goals, economic activities, relations with Natives)

Answer 2

1. Extract wealth, trade, spread Christianity (mostly established trading settlements around North America), Evidence: Jesuit missionaries from France
2. Fur, fish (Ojibwe Indians helped them sell beaver fur)
3. Intermarriage to secure trade relationships

Question 3

Describe Dutch Colonial policies (goals, economic activities, relations with Natives)

Answer 3

1. Trade, little interest in Native conversion
2. Shipping, fur, finance/banking; also established cities like New Amsterdam and New York City
3. Minimal interaction

Question 4

Describe British Colonial policies (goals, economic activities, relations with Natives)

Answer 4

1. Extract wealth, new territory, religious freedom, and improved living conditions since they had wars with France and Ireland which led to inflation of British economy which led them to seek better opportunities in America
2. Joint-stock companies, funded colonies, tobacco, timber, furs; Jamestown funded by joint-stock companies where several people invested money and gathered the profits from there
3. Friendly/reliant at first, tension over lands lead to wars

Question 5

Describe the Caribbean/Carolinas (economic activities, system of government, religious and social makeup)

Answer 5

1. Tobacco, sugarcane, rice, indigo
2. Proprietary charters
3. Anglican, landed gentry, enslaved Africans

Question 6

Describe the Middle Colonies (economic activities, system of government, religious and social makeup)

Answer 6

1. Sought to copy Caribbean system in the Middle Colonies; wheat, barley, corn to make cereal crops
2. Proprietary charters (where proprietor in charge but still subject to royal laws and ultimate authority)
3. Founded by Quakers but otherwise tolerant, diverse society

Question 7

Triangular Trade

Answer 7

Europe, Africa, and the Americas trade system

Europe to Africa: Manufactured goods from Europe such as textiles, rum, and guns; Africa would provide slaves captured through raids

Africa to America:

Americas to Europe:

Question 8

Specific Evidence for Mercantilism

Answer 8

The Navigation Acts: restricted colonial trade to England and decrease dependence on foreign imported goods

Question 9

Provide a specific example of religious toleration during this time period

Answer 9

The Toleration Act of 1689 allowed for freedom of worship for Christians

Question 10

Explain why indentured servitude to African based chattel slavery

Answer 10

Profitability of cash crops created a growing demand for labor. Indentured servtitude provided inefficient and problematic