chapter 2

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Identify the countries that raced to the New World eager to match the gains of the Spanish:
Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and England
What had always justified Spanish conquest
Catholicism
Early French explorers sought
A Northwest Passage to the riches of the East
Few Frenchmen traveled to the New World to settle permanently.
True
Hugo Grotius
Believed that Native Americans had the same natural rights as Europeans
More Africans were enslaved here during the course of the Atlantic slave trade than in any other colony in the Atlantic World:
Brazil
Jamestown was
A profit-seeking venture-backed by investors.
John Winthrop's description of the Massachusetts Bay colony "As a city on a hill" was meant to
Describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world
Juan de Onate ordered
One foot cut off every surviving male over the age of fifteen after his conquest of Acoma.
The Spanish hoped to
Find a northwest passage to the riches of the East