DSPA #1 Practice

Which of the following best describes the Columbian Exchange?

• Plants and animals were transferred among Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

• Columbus discovered new animals in the Americas.

• New foods brought to Europe caused diseases.

• Explorers shipped Native Americans to Europe.

How did enslaved Africans try to cope with life in the Americas?

• adopted the culture of the Native Americans.

• sought refuge in their families, religion, art, and dance.

• tried to start their own farming communities.

• let their owners control their families and religion.

What was the conquistadors' biggest advantage in defeating the Aztecs and the Inca?

• Strong leadership

• Steel armor and weapons

• Larger armies

• Immunity to smallpox

Why did colonists in need of cheap labor turn to slaves from West Africa?

• West African slaves had already built up immunity to European diseases.

• Plantation owners and farmers needed slaves familiar with agriculture.

• The pope had promoted the use of West African slaves in Catholic lands.

• The Portuguese government had legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies.

The ________ aided Europeans in their travels by having triangular sails being able to travel more quickly across the ocean.

Which of the following was not a reason that Europeans travelled to the New World?

• improved technology

• to gain religious freedom and spread religious beliefs

• to take land from other people

• to find economic opportunities

__________ is an economic system in which the means of production (land, labor, capital) are owned by individuals.

• Capitalism
• Communism

• Socialism

• Monopoly

_________ is a political system in which decisions are made by the people.

_________ was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• New York

• Plymouth

Most of the southern colonies passed ______________, or laws to control slaves.

• Rules

• Laws

• Slave Codes

• Taxes