Chapter 2 – The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625

Name: ______________________________

AP US History

Mr. Fertick

Chapter 2 – The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625

Identifications: After reading Chapter 2, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:



Columbian Exchange

Gold Coast

Renaissance

Reconquista

Ferdinand and Isabella

enclosure movement

market economy

joint-stock company

Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther

Calvin and predestination

Counter Reformation

Henry VIII

Separatists

Pilgrims

Mayflower Compact

Squanto and Samoset

Puritans

Anglicans

conversion experience

Prince Henry the Navigator

Trans-Atlantic/“New” Slavery

Christopher Columbus

Treaty of Tordesillas

Vasco de Gama

John Cabot

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Cortes and Pizarro

Encomienda system

Columbian Exchange

St. Augustine, Florida

Northwest Passage

Samuel de Champlain

Spanish Armada

Elizabeth I

“Lost Colony” of Roanoke

Virginia Company of London

Captain John Smith

Powhatan

John Rolfe

“Starving Time”

Pocahontas

Headright system

Opechancanough

Virginia General Assembly

House of Burgesses

New Netherland

Thought Questions:
1. Compare and contrast the early founding and settlement of the Virginia and Plymouth.
2. Discuss the religious and the economic conditions in 16^th and early 17^th century England that made the English interested in exploration and colonization in the Western Hemishpere.
3. “The Atlantic world brought few benefits to West Africans and Native Americans.” Assess the validity of this statement