Foundations - U.S. History Review

Approximately, what percentage of native peoples died following European contact?

• half

• 90%

• very few

• 60%

What disease played the greatest role in the decimation of native populations?

• small pox

• the black death

• chicken pox

• typhoid

What country created an empire throughout Latin America and into the Southwest of what would become the U.S.?

• Great Britain

• China

• Spain

• France

Which country established a trading empire with native peoples throughout eastern Canada and along the Mississippi River?

• France

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Japan

Which country established colonies along the eastern coast of North America?

• France

• Great Britain

• Spain

• China

Virginia tobacco planters looked to African slavery as a labor replacement for indentured servants following

• the Whiskey Rebellion.

• the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• Bacon's Rebellion.

• Natt Turner's Rebellion.

What kind of goods moved from the mother country, Great Britain, to its colonies in North America?

• raw materials

• manufactured products

• cash crops

• art

What goods moved from the British colonies in North America to Great Britain?

• raw materials (cash crops)

• manufactured goods

• livestock

• American art

African slave trading became an important element of

• the caravan trade.

• the fur trade.

• the Silk Road.

• the Triangular trade.

What was the economic theory that argued the colonies existed only to provide raw materials and guaranteed markets for the mother country?

• capitalism

• socialism

• mercantilism

• communism