Week 6 Review • Effects of European Colonization: 1400s-1600s

1.       Most European missionaries who traveled to the Americas practiced what religion?

What allowed the development of plantations?

• Building railroads

• A rise in global trade

• Discovery of sugarcane

• Invention of the machete

Which statement is true about American Indian agriculture? Mark all the apply.

• American Indians grew a great diversity of crops

• American Indians practiced only primitive agriculture

• American Indians received all of their crops from Europeans.

• American Indians used irrigation to help them grow crops.

Which European country or countries claimed and settled land in the New World? Mark all that apply.

• Spain

• France

• Germany

• Portugal

What can we infer by seeing the countries of origin of place names in the USA?

• All names come from Great Britain.

• The place names are multicultural, like the settlers

• Only the Spanish were allowed to name new places.

• None of the places have American Indian names.

Explain how single-crop plantations led to the practice of enslaving people.

What did Europeans, Africans and Americans trade as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

• railroad engineering ideas

• computer technology

• film production techniques

• agricultural knowledge

What is the most likely reason settlers named new colonies after places they used to live?

• They couldn’t think of any other name.

• They wanted to remind themselves of home

• They wanted to trick people into thinking the new colony was the old town.

• They wanted to make sure people who lived there could pronounce it.

Settlers named many settlements in the United States for cities they moved from in ________.

• Europe

• South America

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