APUSH: Midterm
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- What did the population expansions in the 1400s lead to?
- poverty, starvation, political disorder
- What strengthened the monarchy in the 1400s?
- Organized warfare
- What was the result of Columbus' exploration?
- opened up the New World for further exploration; provided new opportunities for European countries
- Who destroyed Aztec civilization?
- Cortes
- What were the reasons for joint-stock companies?
- commercial motivation (gold, glory, religion)
- What cash crops did VA attempt to grow in the New World?
- grapes, silk, indigo, cotton, oranges, olives, sugar, etc
- What cash crop was VA successful at growing?
- tobacco
- What cash crops were early SC successful at growing?
- rice, indigo
- What was the first example of representative government in the colonies?
- Jamestown- house of burgesses
- In the Massachusetts Bay colony, what government did they have?
- General Court (not purely democratic)
- Which colonies were French?
- Quebec, Martinique, St. Christopher, Guadeloupe
- Where did the English settle?
- present-day eastern America and part of Canada
- Where were the Spanish colonies?
- Mexico, Florida, and Texas
- Where were the Dutch?
- Canada, West Indies
- North, South, or Middle: William Bradford.
- North
- North, South, or Middle: John Winthrop.
- North
- Who founded Mass. Bay colony?
- John Winthrop
- Who founded Rhode Island?
- Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson
- Who founded Hartford?
- Thomas Hooker
- What did New Amsterdam become?
- New York
- Who founded New York?
- James, Duke of york
- What was the "Holy Experiment?"
- William Penn's PA
- What kind of colony was Maryland?
- Proprietary
- What kind of colony was Carolina?
- proprietary
- Who founded GA?
- james oglethorpe
- Why was GA established?
- haven for criminals; boundary
- What was passed in MD to ease religious tensions?
- Toleration Act
- What did the Toleration Act say?
- guaranteed freedom of religion to anyone who believed in Jesus
- What is mercantilism?
- exploitation of the colonies
- What would mercantilism do for Europe?
- ensure a favorable balance of trade
- Why did Parliament enact the Navigation Acts?
- commercial competition by the Dutch
- What did the Nav. Acts do?
- reserved the entire trade of the colonies to English ships and required that the captain and 3/4 of its crew be English; declared enumerated items