NEED HELP! my history exam is tomorrow!?

Question

- Growth of commerce and nationalism in Europe & how this influenced the development of the United States.

(Include some of theses): Mercantilism, Enclosure Act, new Gov., new ships, pop. Growth, monarchy, taxes, Line of Demarcation

that is an essay type question and i have to use this vocab in my answer...! i have no idea what to put...

Answer 1

Mercantilism of England in particular led to salutary neglect by the English government in which some trade regulations were not strictly enforced as long as both the American colonists and the English authorities benefited. This led to the American Revolution, when trade regulations actually had to be enforced for revenue collection, and the colonists were discontent.
The Enclosure Act led to more efficient property employment in England as the land that was more or less public before the act became more private. I guess the once high context society became more low context, the poor were isolated, and many had to move towards economic opportunity as colonists. Also, the colonists used the same enclosure ideas as they privatized property.
I don't know what you mean by new government, but the political ideas of Europe definitely permeated to the United States as American colonists were from Europe.
New ships meant more efficient exploration, which is especially the case with the Portuguese explorers and the Spanish as they preserved their empire. It is also the case with the English as they defeat the Spanish Armada and keep their venomous hold on the seas in order to further their mercantilist empire and preserve their American colonies from foreign influence. This leads to mostly English ideas being transferred to United States culture.
Population growth in Europe sparked the original need to explore the so-called New World. It also contributed to the first colonists in Virginia who looked for profit (as opposed to those in New England who were looking to create a religious society different from the one they had in Europe). Later in American history, the New Immigrants from Europe would be significantly increase the U.S. population and thus develop the country.
An example of monarchy is King George the Third's rule of England and the American colonies. The American revolutionaries, affected by liberal Enlightenment ideas, saw his rule as tyrannical and their quasi-oppression as unjust, so they split from England and therefore established the United States. Monarchy also contributed, for instance, to the U.S. not immediately joining World War I, since it was hesitant to join the Allies, which included autocratic Russia under Czar Nicholas the Second, until the Czar was overthrown in the first Russian Revolution (I think it was the October one).
Taxes by the English after the Seven Years War contributed to the American Revolution. The English believe in virtual representation, which is where some people are not directly represented by a representative they elect, while the Americans believe in actual representation, where the people elect a representative to uphold their interests alone. The Americans were thus mad that the English Parliament would choose to tax them for the war and to increase revenue because they had no say in it; Thomas Paine said in "Common Sense" that they should have no taxation without representation. So, that made them revolt and start the U.S.
The Line of Demarcation was made by the pope to divide the so-called New World between Portugal and Spain. The line passed somewhere in present-day Brazil I think. To the West were Spanish possessions and to the East were Portuguese possessions. This gave much of what we call North America to the Spanish, which would later lead to conflicts that would put the American colonies (13) in English control and would spawn the U.S.
So, yes, the growth of commerce and nationalism in Europe influenced the development of the U.S. particularly in the colonial years of mercantilism but it even occurs in the modern era. For instance, during the early 1900s, many Latin American countries owed European countries money. Some European countries would send ships to Latin American countries and bombard their coastlines until they pay up. The Americans under President Taft wanted to preserve their sovereignty in the Western Hemisphere so they used dollar diplomacy, which meant that they paid off debts for the Latin American countries and the European countries would then owe the U.S. money. European countries also owed the U.S. money after they borrowed from World War I, and this would lead to the American Roaring Twenties of prosperity.

Answer 2

I can offer you some of the answers to what you're looking for such as monarchy that was slowly becoming a thing of the past meaning the role of the king or queen was becoming more of a constitutional role than a governing one. Most of the countries that still have a royal family are all constitutional roles whether a king or queen has taken the throne it's more like a ceremonial figurehead. Taxes over time have been shifting from it being used to support the royal family to applying the money towards supporting the government. As far as mercantilism this was derived from self made businesses and that became the foundation to what has made buisnesses as big as they are today. New government meaning they have presidents and prime ministers who are head of government in certain countries instead of the king or queen being the head of government. I hope that gives you some of what you're looking for.

Answer 3

just don't worry. i'm taking the test tomorrow too. i'm a freshmen and i'm not too excited to take it. The test does not require much knowledge on specific facts, you just need to get the gist of what is going on. Our teacher told us that the average person that scores a 3 on the test (which is a very decent grade) gets a 40% on the multiple choice. think about it..you can get at least 28 out of 70 questions right. If you can narrow down the question to 2 or 3 choices, take a guess. but if you have no clue, don't guess on it because you will be deducted points. And i'm sure you know something, if you've taken the course. Believe me, you will do fine. Good luck =]

Answer 4

Nah! YOU include some of those...tomorrow. Better get off the computer and start studying.

Answer 5

it's k just make note cards and have the answers on the back

Answer 6

why didn't you study through the weekend??