American Pageant Chapter 1 & 2 EXAM with complete verified solutions already graded A+

Reasons for Exploration of New World - increasing population in Europe - demand for more and cheaper products - New Routes to the East - Gold, Glory Gospel Effects of Exploration - Slave Trade needed - Spread of Disease -- natives died - Conflict over land -- European nations claimed same area - The Colombian Exchange Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Colombian Exchange - Widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, slaves, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres - Cultural Diffusion Papal Line of Demarcation (1493) - Pope Alexander VI - division of new world between Spain and Portugal - Effect of Exploration Treaty of Tordesilla (1494) - most of the "new world" (not brazil) to Spain - Effect of Exploration Encomienda System - government gives indians and land to colonists to Christianize - (Slavery) Black Legend - Conquerors tortured and killed indians - False/true concept Spanish Influence on the New World - Encomienda System - Black Legend - Brought (spanish) culture into native societies - fused native culture into their own - Did not shun indian culture - Participated in intermarriage How did the English emerge as a naval power? - Defeated the Spanish Armada Characteristics of English Empire (colony type) - Charter - Proprietorship - Royal Charter Colony - group of people that pool their money together - Share profits and losses ex: Virginia (Jamestown) Proprietorship Colony - Individual gains land - Royal grant of land to Royal favorites ex: Maryland Royal Colony - Ruled by the Crown of England ex: Georgia Chesapeake Bay - Virginia and Maryland - indentured servants - Representative self-government - House of Burgesses (1619) - Powhattan Confederacy John Rolfe - Introduces tobacco and slaves - saved the colony (profitable) House of Burgesses - 1619 - Early form of self government - first legislative assembly of elected representatives Powhattan Confederacy - Neighboring Native American Tribe - fell to Disease, Disorganization, Disposability Maryland - Proprietorship - Acts of (religious) Toleration to christians only (not to Jews) - Indentured Servants Georgia - Royal colony - buffer between aristocratic South Carolina and Spanish Florida and French Louisiana - Penal colony for debtors - James Oglethorpe - Plantation system modeled after South Carolina James Oglethorpe - Leading statesman in Georgia - Repelled Spanish Attacks