Early Exploration Test Review

What happened to American Indians after 1492?

• They began growing tea and coffee

• Most perished from disease

• Their population decreased by nearly twenty percent

• They began selling horse for gold

Which items originated in the Americas and became European staples as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

• corn, chocolate, rice, sugar

• rice, cattle, tomatoes, gold

• wheat, chocolate, pineapples, potatoes

• corn, potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes

What caused Europe’s population to increase, to provoke its interest in trade, and provided its population with large amounts of gold and silver?

• the Commercial Revolution

• the Columbian Exchange

• the Triangular Trade

• the mercantilism economy

Which answer best describes the effects of the slave trade on the African people?

• The population declined as a result of forceful removal from the continent and being killed in war

• The slave trade lead to raids by Europeans to capture African people and transport them to the New World

• They shifted commercially away from agriculture to the trade of manufactured goods.

• Their population declined because few Africans in child-bearing years remained on the continent

A reason Spanish conquistadors went to the Americas during the 1500s was to

• prevent war with the American Indians

• protect the American Indian way of life

• learn about American Indian culture

• spread Christianity to American Indians

What did American Indians agree to do in exchange for the food and clothing offered by Spanish missions?

• search for gold

• become conquistadors

• convert to Christianity

• guide Spanish explorers

The city of Quebec was founded in 1608 by

• Christopher Columbus

• Samuel Champlin

• William Bradford

• Hernando de Soto

One reason that Quebec was a successful colony in the 1600s is that

• French settlers learned American Indian languages and customs

• French settlers refused to trade with american Indians

• American Indians were interested in obtaining fur from the French

• American Indians refused to adotp French culture and tradition

As a result of the voyages of Giovanni da Verrazano, the French

• began to claim land in North America

• found a Northwest Passage to Asia

• hired and explorer named Henry Hudson

• formed the Dutch East India Company

The colony that Jacques Cartier set up near Quebec failed because of

• the long voyage from Europe.

• the lack of access to the ocean.

• a series of battles with American Indian tribes.

• the winter weather of Quebec.