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What 4 countries had a colonizing attitude?
Spain, Portugal, France, & England
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What attitude did the colonizing European countries have towards the Native Americans?
They were less valuable than the European settlers
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What was the attitude of the European settlers towards the resources in the New World.
They were there for the Europeans to use and use up.
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What was the European attitude towards land and resources in the New World?
If I can take it, I have the right to take it.
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What did the Columbian Exchange include?
Crops and animals
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What killed many natives to the New World?
European diseases like small pox
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Spanish settlers were called...
conquistadors
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The Spanish came to the New World for two main reasons, what were they?
- Gold
- To convert the Natives to Christianity
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Name a Spanish explorer who came to the New World.
Cortes
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The French came to the New World mainly to...
Trade fur with the Natives
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Give the order of the English "Social Pyramid" from the top to the bottom.
- Kings/Princes
- Nobles
- Lesser nobles/knights
- Merchants
- Peasants/Serfs
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What was feudalism?
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
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What is hereditary monarchy
Under a hereditary monarchy, all the monarchs come from the same family, and the crown is passed down from one member to another member of the family.
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Why did the English come to the New World?
- Wealth (gold)
- Land
- better opportunities
- religious freedom
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How did people without money come to the new world from England.
They came as indentured servants.
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What is an indentured servant?
- They voluntarily signed a contract to serve another for a period of time until their debt was paid.
- Their was a time limit
- Both sides of those contracted benefited.
- non-hereditary (their children were free)
- non-identity based (anyone could be an indentured servant)
- It was for payment for a debt.
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What is Chattel Slavery?
- People are not treated in a humane way.
- People are property.
- These people were considered disposable
- They had no human rights.
- They had no identity and their children became slaves upon birth.
- They worked for no pay.
- They are treated very cruel if they tried to escape or did something their master. considered wrong.
- They did not volunteer to be a slave.
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How long was slavery allowed in America?
1619 - 1700
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The British Parliament is like our _______________ in the USA.
Congress
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What is the job of parliament?
They make laws and enact taxes
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What was the cry of the Colonists against parliament?
No taxation without representation.
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What was the proclamation of 1763?
Settlers in the colonies have to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains.
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