2026 QUESTIONS WITH PRACTICE SOLUTION
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◉ encomienda. Answer: Spanish government's policy to "commend"
or give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to
Christianize them
◉ mercantilism. Answer: a concept of economic life; increase the
nation's wealth by extracting wealth from foreign countries
◉ columbian exchange. Answer: the transfer of goods, crops and
diseases between New and Old World
◉ native world (new). Answer: gold, silver, tobacco, corn, potatoes,
beans, chocolate, syphilis
◉ old world. Answer: wheat, rice, sugar, coffee, horses,
pigs,smallpox, measles, bubonic plague
◉ french policy towards natives. Answer: decent treatment towards
natives, didn't plan on permanent settlement, economy based on fur
, trade; so they needed to be on good side of Natives to exploit this
market
◉ spanish policy towards natives. Answer: treated natives horribly;
example is the genocide of natives in Cuba, Dominica and Mexico.
Tortured and executed natives who refused to convert to christianity
◉ english policy towards natives. Answer: on the good side of
natives when they first arrived; but as their settlement grew, conflict
erupted causing war against natives on the east coast
◉ john winthrop. Answer: led a group of english puritans to the new
world, joined the mass. bay company, was elected governor
◉ "city upon a hill". Answer: phrase by John Winthrop, in order to
warn the colonist that would found mass. that it would be a "city
upon a hill"
◉ indentured servants. Answer: a poor person obligated to a fixed
term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as
transportation, protection or training
◉ bacon's rebellion. Answer: a revolt in 1674, the first revolt in the
American colonies and consisted of frontiersmen and protested
against Native American raids