History of Latin America Review

The Columbian Exchange involved the transfer of

• Diseases within Europe
• Ideas within Latin America
• Slaves between Africa and Asia
• Goods and disease between Europe and the Americas

Which of these was the MOST important result of the deaths of much of the Indian population in South America?

• The importance of slaves from Africa
• The removal of the Jesuits from South America
• The call for an end to colonization of the Americas
• The search to enslave more Indians from North America

During the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which area saw the greatest number of slaves brought over from ...?

• Brazil
• United States
• French-controlled Caribbean Islands
• British controlled Caribbean Islands

In the years between 1517 and 1617, which disease killed the greatest number of Native Americans in Florida?

• Measles
• Smallpox
• Influenza
• Bubonic Plague

The Columbian Exchange was...

• The first great banking and trading house in South America
• The exchange of precious metals between the old and new worlds
• The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the old and new worlds
• The movement of the army of Simon Bolivar across Gran Columbia

In 1959 Fidel Castro led a revolution that successfully overthrew Fulgencio Batista, the leader of ... 

• Argentina
• Cuba
• Guatemala
• Mexico

The Cuban Revolution resulted in... 

• Increased trade with the US
• A Cold War ally with the US
• A government that soon adopted communist reforms and ideals
• A more US friendly government than had existed in the 1950s

The GREATEST impact of the Columbian Exchange was... 

• The annual storage of crops for native peoples
• The transport of slaves from the Americas to Africa
• The spread of new diseases, which led to vaccinations
• The transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa

The LEAST LIKELY effect of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas was... 

• The decimation of the native peoples of the Americas
• The importation of labor-intensive crops leading to slavery
• The use of the mita labor system by European colonizers
• The reduced social status of European colonizers in the Americas

The Columbian Exchange can trace its development to... 

• Voyages of European discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries
• Overland native trade routes in the 14th and 15th centuries
• Indian Ocean mariners in the 13th and 14th centuries
• Crusaders in the 11th and 12th centuries.