The Impact of Contact on the New World TEST

Let’s say you’re an Englishman of the planter class in 17th-century Virginia. How would you grow tobacco if you were cultivating it as a cash crop?

• I’d grow just enough tobacco for my family’s use, and devote the rest of my land to growing food to sell in the marketplace

• I’d grow tobacco in conjunction with beans, to refresh the soil and keep from exhausting the land

• I’d grow nothing but tobacco and prepare it for export

Served cold and frothy by the Mesoamerican elite, which New World beverage began a craze in Europe that coincided with the growing European desire for sugar?

• chocolate

• tea

• coffee

What was responsible for the deaths of so many Huron and Iroquois people in the 17th century?

• The volcanic explosion of Algonquin Peak in the Adirondacks

• The smallpox virus

• A campaign of terror coordinated between Spanish and British colonists

Which group of foods originated in the New World?

• Oranges, olives, tea, and herring

• Corn, chocolate, tomatoes, and potatoes

• Spinach, cabbage, rice, and sugarcane

What was the one disease that came from the New World to the Old World?

• Tuberculosis, a respiratory disease

• Syphilis, a sexually-transmitted infection

• Malaria, a parasitic disease carried by mosquitoes

What was the economic philosophy of mercantilism?

• Colonies extend an empire’s trading posts to distant locations and therefore should try to cultivate as many new trading partners as possible

• Merchants and trade are the key to a nation’s wealth and therefore free trade must be preserved at all costs

• Colonies exist to enrich the home country and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to trade with anyone except the home country

What was traded between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas in the Columbian Exchange?

• Stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodity futures

• Tea, ceramics, gunpowder, and maps

• Cash crops, finished goods, diseases, and human beings

Crops such as sugar and tobacco were New World discoveries for the European colonizers. What was the main reason they were valued?

• As new items that could be used in rituals and medicine

• As cash crops that could be produced for sale

• As gifts to entice Native Americans to agree to exploitative treaties

What were the plantations of the early colonial period designed to do?

• Create large quantities of raw commodity crops at low cost, like indigo, sugar, tobacco, or coffee

• Produce cotton for the international textile market

• Plant extensive food crops, like corn, wheat, and potatoes, to supply starving populations in Europe

What was responsible for the deaths of so many Huron and Iroquois people in the 17th century?

• A campaign of terror coordinated between Spanish and British colonists

• The smallpox virus

• The volcanic explosion of Algonquin Peak in the Adirondacks