2.1 Trade Across Continents

What year did Christopher Columbus land in the Caribbean?

The soil in the Caribbean islands was not good to grow crops.

• True

• False

What is another word to describe when things are in short demand or there isn't enough of it?

Did the Spanish settlers take advantage of native people by using them to work their land?

• True

• False

Which word defines when someone is taken advantage of?

• Explosion

• Work

• Exploited

• Opportunity

What is a cash crop?

• a shortage

• trade with other continents

• a crop that is grown for money

• trade routes

The exchange of goods among three continents became known as the:

The triangular trade was an exchange of goods among which continents:

• Caribbean, Central America, Africa

• Europe, Africa, the Americas

• United States, Africa, and Central America

• the Americas, Central America, and Caribbean

How did the Spaniards pay for slaves in Africa?

Where economic patterns established during the triangular trade that continues to exist today.

• True

• False