u.s history

• what was one of the first European countries to establish trade with africa?

  portugal
• what European country was able to defeat the N. African Moors and force them off the Iberian Peninsula?

  spain
• what is the name of the Italian explore who sailed for Spain and discovered the new world?

  christopher columbus
• which spanish explore landed on san salvador and reported to the spanish crown the extreme wealth that could be found in the new world?


  Christopher Columbus
• what is the name of the transfer of goods and ideas between old world (Europe) and the new world?

  columbian exchange
• what disease carried by Europeans to the new world nearly wiped out the native population in the new world?

  smallpox
• this limited liability organization funded most trips to the new world from Europe. they did so to minimize their losses and share in the profit, name it


  joint stock company
• what European country became the first major player in the new world?

  spain
• after colonizing the new world Spain realized their profits would come from what enterprise ____, not gold or silver

  agriculture
• what economic system (forced labor) did Spain use in the new world?

  encomienda system
• how did the spanish overcome a shortage of laborers in the new world?

  imported African slaves
• when the english settlers along the east coast of america who taught them to hunt in the forests and to grow maize (corn)?

  native americans
• what three things did spanish conquistadors seek when they arrived in the new world?

  god, gold, glory
• what European country settled in Eastern Canada, around the great lakes region, and in the Ohio valley; they traded with the natives for fur pelts?


  france
• what European country opened a trading center along the hudson river called their colony new Amsterdam?

  the dutch
• what European countries goals are the most important to study in u.s history?


  England
• what pushed english settlers out of Europe and to the new world?


  economic opportunity, seeking religious freedom, & improved living conditions
• what British colony was founded in Virginia in 1607? this colony was also England’s first permanent colony in the new world?


  jamestown
• what name is given to British organizations that financed english settlers passage to the new world and expected profits from their business venture?

  joint stock company
• this British colony suffered through the “starving time” and resorted to cannibalism in order to survive, name the colony


  jamestown
• john Rolfe experimented with this cash crop, which economically saved England’s first colony, name the crop

  tabacco
• a hunger for additional land caused what rebellion to take place in Virginia?

  bacon rebellion
• after the rebellion Virginia planters realized they could not rely on indentured servants any longer as their labor force, who did they began to rely on for the agricultural labor?

  African slaves
• this group of english settlers brought their wives and children with them, they fled England seeking religious freedom, and they arrived along the northern coast of america in 1620, name them

  pilgrams
• did the souther colonies begin to use the same agricultural economic system and labor system as they did in the Caribbean? yes or no

  yes
• which of the three established english colonial regions was the lost diverse, new england, middle, or southern?

  middle
• William Penn a Quacker founded what middle colony?

  Pennsylvania
• within William Penn’s colony was freedom if religion freedom? yes or no

  yes
• what was one of the first attempts to establish self-governing by the colonist?


  Mayflower Compact
• what colony created the house of burgesses in an attempt to create self-government?


  jamestown
• what group of english settlers dominated the attempts to self-govern?


  wealthy landholders
• trade from the american colonies to Africa and then to the Caribbean and back to the American colonies is called what?

  triangular trade
• when looking at the African slave trade the second leg of the journey from Africa to the Caribbean or the Americans colonies is called what?

  middle passage
• what economic system did the British use in order to establish favorable trade for the “mother country”?


  Mercantilism
• the king and english parliament created a series of acts that restrict colonial trade with other nations. They did so, by forcing the american colonies to ship all raw material on english ships to the mother country, what is the name of those acts?


  navigation acts
• from 1700-1800 how many slaves were brought to the americas?

  3 million
• new england, middle, or southern colonies, which one had the fewest slaves?

  New England
• southern colonies restricted african slaves by creating?

  slave codes
• another word to describe slaves and used in the black codes is what?

  chattel
• in 1739, a slave rebellion to place near charles town, south carolina, name it

  stono rebellion