Download Ch 17 The Transatlantic Economy and Colonial Rebellion Jeopardy

WORTH:
The Transatlantic Economy and
Colonial Rebellion
Mercantile
Empires
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Slavery/
Africa
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18th Century
Wars
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American
Revolution
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Terms/ Ideas
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WORTH:
MAIN
What was Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Naval superiority and gunpowder.
This is what allowed Europeans
to dominate and influence
over so much of the world for
so long.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:Mercantile Empires
MAIN
What was the Treaty of Utrecht,
which settled the War of the
Spanish Succession?
This is the Treaty that
established the boundaries of
Empire for the first half of the
18th Century.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:Mercantile Empires
MAIN
What was bullion in gold or
silver?
This was the measure of
wealth according to
mercantilism in the 18th
Century.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:Mercantile Empires
Who was Robert Clive and the
British East India Company and
Robert Dupleix of the Compagnie
des Indies or the French East India
MAIN
Company?
These were the two European leaders who
struggled with their companies to control
India in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:Mercantile Empires
MAIN
What were coffee, tea, and
chocolate?
What three products
introduced from the tropics
helped spur the need for
more sugar in the diets of
Europeans.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:Mercantile Empires
What were states in central western
Africa such as Senegambia, Sierra
Leone, the Gold Coast, The Bight of
Benin, and the Bight of Biafra?
MAIN
These were the major slave
markets and sources for
slaves in Africa in the 18th
Century.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Slavery/Africa
MAIN
What was Brazil and the Caribbean
islands? ( The U.S. Colonies import
slaves in lower numbers to harvest
tobacco, sugar and finally cotton.)
These were the areas or
countries where most slaves
were imported to in the mid18th Century.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Slavery/Africa
MAIN
What were Jamaica, South Carolina,
and a successful slave revolt in Haiti
led by Toussaint L’Overture?
These were the areas in the New
World or colonies where slave
revolts occurred, and at least in
one case a successful slave
revolt.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Slavery/Africa
MAIN
What is Voodoo?
This was the religion that was
created in Haiti, which was a
combination of ancient African
beliefs and Catholicism.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Slavery/Africa
MAIN
What was the granting of rights by the French
National Assembly to Saint Dominque, ( this
started the Haitian Slave Revolt), British
outlawing of the Slave trade ( Wilburforce in
1807)The Latin American Wars of Independence ,
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 ( Freed the
slaves in rebellious states), and the Brazilian
Emancipation Proclamation of 1888?
These are the events that ended
slavery or at least began the end of
slavery in the western world.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Slavery/Africa
MAIN
What was the War of Jenkins Ear?
This was the war that began in
1739 between Spain and Britain
as a result of trading privileges
won by the British in the Treaty
of Utrecht of asiento or providing
slaves for Spainish colonies and
allowing a trading ship at the
Portobello Fair in present day
Panama.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500 SUBJECT: 18th Century Wars
What was the War of the
Austrian Succession 1740-1748?
MAIN
This was the War that began as
a rebuke of the Pragmatic
Sanction by Frederick the
Great and eventually led to a
global conflict in 1740.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500 SUBJECT: 18th Century Wars
What was the Convention of
Westminster and the first Treaty of
Versailles negotiated by Wenzel Anton
Kaunitz?
These were the two Treaties or
alliances signed in 1756 that realigned
the European balance of power, with
France now allied with Austria, and
Great Britain with Prussia.
MAIN
WORTH:
200 300 400 500 SUBJECT: 18th Century Wars
What was the Seven Year’s War or
the French and Indian War and
Battle of the Plains of Abraham for
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Quebec?
This was the War that
secured the continent of
North America for Great
Britain and the battle that
settled the conflict.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500 SUBJECT: 18th Century Wars
What was the Treaty of Paris and the
Treaty of Hubertusburg ?
MAIN
These were the two treaties
signed in 1763 one which ended
the Prussian conflict with most of
Europe after Russia ceased
conflicts with Frederick the Great
and the war between France and
Great Britain.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500 SUBJECT: 18th Century Wars
MAIN
Who was Lord North?
He was the Prime Minster of Great
Britain who was determined to
make the colonies of Britain
comply with English policy and
was hated by most of the
American colonists.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: American Revolution
What were the Intolerable Acts or
MAIN
the Coercive Acts?
These were the laws that shut
down the port of Boston,
reorganized the government of
Massachusetts, allowed troops to
be quartered in private homes, as
well as removing the trials of royal
officials to England.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: American Revolution
What was the First Continental
Congress?
MAIN
This was the group of American
citizens or Committees of
Correspondence who convened
in Philadelphia in 1774 to
convince Parliament to allow
colonial self government.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: American Revolution
What
was
the
Battle
of
Lexington
MAIN
and Concord and the Battle of
Yorktown?
These were the first and last
battles of the American
Revolution.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: American Revolution
What were the Sugar Act and the
Stamp Act?
MAIN
These were the Acts that were
instituted under the ministry of
Lord Grenville and placed taxes
in 1764 on smuggling a needed
confectionary commodity and
the next year a tax on
newspapers and legal
documents.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: American Revolution
What was the Battle of Plassey?
MAIN
This was the Battle that
forced the French from India
in 1757 and eventually leads
to the British domination of
India.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Terms / Ideas
MAIN
What was The North Briton?
This was the Newspaper
published by John Wilkes which
led to his arrest and eventual
confrontation with George III
and his contested election to
Parliament in 1774.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Terms / Ideas
MAIN
What was the Yorkshire
Association Movement?
This was the movement
organized by Christopher
Wyvil to protest the policies of
Lord North the
mismanagement of the War,
and the corrupt system of
parliamentary elections.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Terms / Ideas
MAIN
What were the Articles of
Confederation?
This was the document that
governed the U.S. prior to the
adoption of the Constitution in
1788.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Terms / Ideas
Who were John Trenchard and Thomas
Gordon and Cato’s Letters?
MAIN
These were two of the
Commonwealthmen and
what they wrote criticizing
the government of Robert
Walpole and parliamentary
corruption.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Terms / Ideas