Chapter #2 "European Exploration of the Americas" Review

What did the French and Dutch Colonists trade in New France?

• Corn
• Tobacco
• Cotton
• Fish and Furs

_____ was an Italian navigator who discovered the New World for Spain while looking for a route to Asia.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Leif Eriksson

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

How did the Spanish rule affect Native Americans?

• The Native Americans prospered under their rule.
• The Native Americans were enslaved by the Spanish.
• The Native Americans were educated in their own language
• The Native Americans enjoyed much success under the Spaniards.

____ conquered Montezuma and the Aztec Nation.

• Hernan Cortez

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

To _____ means to travel around the world by either ship or plane.

• transatlantic

• exchange

• circumnavigate

• transcontinental

_____ was an transfer of people, products, and ideas between the eastern and western hemispheres.

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

A _____ is a Spanish conqueror or soldier-adventurer in the Americas.

• Viking

• emperor

• explorer

• conquistador

The country of _____ was a major leader in exploration in the mid 1400's.

• France

• England

• Portugal

• Mexico

The Dutch purchased the island of Manhattan from the Native Americans in 1626 and named it _____.

• New Netherland

• New Amsterdam

• New York

• New England

_____ was a Catholic priest that traveled through New Spain working for reform the treatment of Native Americans.

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Hernan Cortez

• Pope Nicholas V