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- Colombian Exchange
- The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the european colonization of the Americas in 1492
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Examples of exchange from the America(the old world) to Europe(the old world)
Tobacco, pumpkin, turkey, squash, quinine, sweet potato, avocado, peppers, pineapple, cacoa bean, cassava, peanut, beans, vanilla, potato, tomato, corn
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Examples of exchange from Europe to America
Guns, religion of christianity, citrus fruits, onion, olive, grape, turnip, banana, coffee bean, peach, sugar cane, honey bee, grains, livestock, disease
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Commercial Revolution
The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries
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Capitalism(America)
An economic system based on private ownership of property and on investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit
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Inflation
Occurs when people have no more money to spend and thus demand more goods and services so prices raise and value of money goes down
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Joint-Stock Company
A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the process; sponsor colonists to make expeditions; motto: explore for profit
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Mercantilism
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver by selling more goods than they bought
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Favorable Balance of Trade
An economic situation in which a country exports more than it imports---that is, selling more goods abroad than it buys abroad
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Import
Receive goods from another country
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Export
Send & sell goods to another country
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Northwest Passage
A northwest route through North America to Asia. The route wasn't found and the French, English, and Dutch instead established colonies in North America. It didn't exist, waterway from the Atlantic to the pacific
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New France
The base of France's colonial empire in North America (Quebec)
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Giovanni de Verrazzo
Italian in the service of France. Found the New York Harbor in 1524
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Jacques Cartier
St Lawrence River to Montreal in 1534 a frenchman
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Samuel de Champlain
A French explorer who sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1608 he claimed the land he found Quebec "Father of New France"
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Jacques Marquette
A French priest who explored the great lakes and upper Mississippi River in 1673
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Louis Joliet
A trader who explored the great lakes and the Mississippi River in 1673
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LaSalle
Claimed the Louisiana River valley for France named after King Louis XIV
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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement
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Pilgrims
Took a religious journey to Jamestown
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Puritans
Took a religious journey to Boston
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Henry Hudson
An Englishman in service of the Netherlands who found and names the waterways: Hudson River, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait
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New Netherland
From New York City to Albany along the Hudson River; fur trade, many religions, languages, and settlers
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New York
Given to the Duke of York by his brother Charles II in 1664 after the English take over the Dutch colony with no shots fired
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French-Indian War
A war between the French and the English because of colonies expanding and interfering where French won in 1763 and were forced to leave North America
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King Philip's War
In 1675, Indians vs. British Colonists
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Metacom
King Philip who led the Indians to an attack in 52 colonial villages through Massachusetts in 1675; the colonists won
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Disease
Included small pox, measles, and other diseases killing many slaves and colonists
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Colonies
The Spanish establish colonies in the Americas for economic reasons like finding gold
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Pedro Cabral
Claims Brazil for Portugal
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Amerigo Vaspucci
Italian working for Spain; America named for him
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Isthmus of Panama to South Sea
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Juan Ponce de Leon
Florida (Fountain of Youth)
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Francisco Coronado
Southwestern U.S. Grand Canyon
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Ferdinand Magellan
Circumnavigates the world
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Hernando Cortes
Spaniard who conquers the Aztecs in Mexico
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Conquistador
"conquerer" Spanish soldier looking for gold
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Montezuma II
Aztec leader
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Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Incas in South America
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Ecomienda System
Labor force for the Spanish
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Bartolome de Las Casa
Catholic Spanish monk who spoke out against slavery
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African Slaves
- •needed because Native-Americans are dead of war and disease
- •Spain and Portugal(Brazil) first look to Africa
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Early Slavery in Africa
- •non-Muslims
- •prisoners of war (POW)
- •criminals
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Advantages of African Slaves
- •immunity to European disease
- •experienced farmers
- •no knowledge of the land-less chance for successful escape
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Atlantic Slave Trade
- •buying and selling Africans for work in the Americas
- •1690-1807 England dominates slave trade
- •King Alfonso protests
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Triangular Trade
- •trans-Atlantic trading network
- •raw materials from America to Europe
- •slaves from Africa to America
- •manufactured goods from Europe to Africa to America
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Middle Passage
- •middle part of the triangular trade
- •slaves from Africa to America
- •inhuman treatment with pocked slave ships
- •death,suicide,disease
- •20% fatality rate
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Slavery in America
- •hereditary
- •cruel
- •no rights or freedoms
- •all types of work
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Plantations
Large farms growing a cash crop using slave labor
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Slave Punishments
- •whipping
- •branding
- •selling off family members
- •mutalation
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Slaves Resistance
- •music and storytelling
- •work slow and sabotage of tools
- •run away and escape
- •armed revolts
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Consequences Of The Slave Trade
- •less young population in Africa
- •families torn apart
- •guns and warfare to Africa
- •labor force in the American colonies(economies and culture)
- •more population in the Americas
- •Mulatto-intermarriage between Africans and Europeans(Americans)
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