Module 2 Review (Beginnings to 1877)

What improvement to the caravel made it easier to steer than the older galleon?

• Steering wheel

• Flat bottoms

• Square sails

• Rudder in back

The ________ were the first Europeans to establish colonies in North America.

Please Draw the route by sea Europeans took to get to Asia

What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?

• Most of the Native Americans died from European diseases.

• Most of the Native Americans refused to work.

• The Europeans found it more economical to use the African slaves instead of the native peoples.

• The Europeans regarded the Native Americans too highly to make them work.

The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and 1500s is called the __________.

• New World

• Columbian Exchange

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Line of Demarcation

Which place was Coronado the first European to discover?

• Coastal Florida

• Galveston Island

• Grand Canyon

• Mississippi River

The Spanish crown controlled migration to the new lands it discovered. They required that only __________ be allowed to settle there.

• Christians

• Jews

• Muslims

• Atheists

What is a plantation?

• large farm

• Spanish village or trading post

• Catholic church property

• Spanish military base

What is a Mission?

• Spanish village or trading post

• large farm

• Catholic church property

• Spanish military base

What is a Pueblo?

• Spanish military base

• large farm

• Catholic church property

• Spanish village or trading post