7th grade cumulative exam review

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Beringia

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The land bridge that the first Americans used to travel from Asia to North America.

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Why did the first Americans go to America?

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They were searching for food or tracking prey—they were nomads.

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Positive effects of Christopher Columbus

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Discovered the New World

Encountered the Native Americans

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Negative effects of Christopher Columbus

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Spread diseases to the Native Americans

Took land

Enslaved the Native Americans

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the Columbian Exchange

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trade between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (North America)

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Positive effects of the Columbian Exchange

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New foods, livestock, and grains

First contact with the New World

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Negative effects of the Columbian Exchange

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Diseases

Slavery of Africans

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mercantilism

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The belief that colonies exist only to benefit the mother country.

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triangular trade

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trade between England, Africa, and North America/British West Indies

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the middle passage

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the journey that enslaved people took across the Atlantic to where they would be forced into slavery.