APUSH Unit one & two Short answer questions
. Briefly explain ONE important social response in the Americas to the statement above in the period 1492-1607.
African slaves became critical in replacing natives in social hierarchy
Answer: HOW MUCH POWER DOES THE CROWN HAVE? a) Briefly explain ONE important similarity between the British approach to colonization in North
America to the French or Spanish colonization in the period from 1607-1754 Spanish- came to establish plantation colonies in Brazil Jamestown, Maryland, and the Caribbean Islands Chesapeake- those who came to the Chesapeake were motivated by plantation colonies and good weather.
Answer: HOW MUCH POWER DOES THE CROWN HAVE? (this is IMPORTANT) Briefly explain ONE important difference between the British approach to colonization in North America to the French or Spanish colonization in the period from 1607-1754.
Britain: mercantilism: controlling, navigation acts. Spain: not doing anything like that! not enslaving the natives like the British better to import their slaves than just go and enslave the people who occupy the land Spanish- grew sugar cane which was extremely hard labor work and rots quickly, there were also really good revenue that came in from sugar so more slaves were needed British- tobacco colonies; less challenging work and less revenue produced so not as strict plantation owners Spain: encomienda system, British: mercantilism
Identify ONE figure involved in the Great Awakening and explain their contribution to this movement.
English minister George Whitefield carried John Wesley's passionate message to America, where he attracted huge crowds from Georgia to Massachusetts professing listeners that they have sinned and must seek salvation
Identify ONE Enlightenment thinker and explain their contribution to this movement.
English philosopher John Locke wrote Treaties of Government which advanced the revolutionary theory that political authority was not given by God to monarchs as James II had insisted
Explain ONE way African slaves resisted the dehumanizing aspects of slavery
For instance some slaves were freed because of Christian baptism this was due to English common law not acknowledging chattel slavery. Allowing for some Africans to escape bondage
Identify THREE different factors that led to the growth of African slavery from 1619 to 1750 in the North American British colonies
Headright system, Indentured servitude, South Atlantic System
Identify THREE different crops or livestock that were introduced by the Spanish in the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries
Horses, Sugar, wheat
Explain how ONE of the examples from Part A changed colonial society.
Indentured servitude was the first purchase of laborers to work for another set of people owning those laborers. Forming the path to slavery indentured servants could have time added to their service in instances of running away or pregnancy and were ruthlessly exploited to maximize their owner's gains
Briefly explain ONE specific historical effect that resulted from the patterns depicted in the map
John Winthrop transformed his joint stock corporation which was a commercial agreement that allowed investors to pool their resources into a representative political system with a governor, council, and assembly to govern the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
) Briefly explain ONE specific historical development that contributed to the emergence during the eighteenth century of the patterns depicted in the map
Mercantilism was a system of state-assisted manufacturing and trade, through encouraging textile production Queen Elizabeth reduced imports and increased exports.
Briefly explain ONE long-term result of the change explained in Part B on American Indians.
Slave-based plantation agriculture grew and expanded for centuries. Allowing for the demand in land and the arrogance for Americans to rise while letting them believe that anything they want is theirs.
Briefly explain how ONE of the examples from Part A changed work or trade in the Americas.
Sugar led to the development of plantation-based agriculture based on slave labor, devouring laborers the supply of indentured servants quickly became inadequate to planters' needs. Leading to the shift of long term slaves instead of these temporary employees
Briefly explain how either the Enlightenment or the Great Awakening contributed to changes in American society in the colonial period
The Enlightenment birthed new ideas not none by all citizens, for instance natural rights life, liberty, and property were expressed. Furthermore the idea of people holding the power to change government or government policies spread. Finally one of Benjamin Franklin's contribution was the belief of natural reasoning or human's innate moral sense to define right and wrong
Explain how ONE religious or intellectual movement that affected colonial resistance.
The Glorious revolution sparked rebellions by Protestant colonists in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland. Puritan leaders and 2,000 militiamen seized Governor Andros and shipped him back to England
Provide ONE new piece of additional evidence and explain how it supports your response in either Part A or Part B
The lack of currency in the colonies forced American merchants to use bills of exchange and gold and silver coins to pay British manufactures. Leading to an American solution of land banks, which lent paper money to farmers who pledged their land as collateral for the loans
Explain ONE colonial economic or political practice that illustrated colonial resistance.
The selling of flour, fish, and meat produced by mainland American settlers to Britain's rival country France. This lead to American rum distillers beginning to buy cheap molasses from the French that resulted in Parliament passing the Molasses Act making a high tariff on any molasses purchase breaking the bond made between the two countries.
Briefly explain ONE important economic response in the Americas to the statement above in the period 1492-1607.
The slave trade grew and became an important part of global economics for centuries.
Briefly explain ANOTHER specific historical effect that resulted from the patterns depicted in the map.
The success of triangle trade and British trade led to English naval dominance and control of the Atlantic activity.
Briefly explain the impact of the social response in Part A or the economic response in Part B on American society in the period 1492-1607
There was a greater tolerance of mixed-race peoples and racial difference in the Spanish world
Answer: HOW MUCH POWER DOES THE CROWN HAVE? Briefly explain ONE factor that accounts for the difference you indicated in (b).
sugar production was much greater in Brazil and vice versa with tobacco in the British colonies. Because of the surplus in certain goods, that would explain the differences in the two certain crops could only grow in certain climates
