Exploration Test 2

Which was a major effect of the European slave trade on Africa?

• The decline of African Kingdoms accerlated
• controlled more and more international trade.
• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.
• merchants and ship owners

What nation was the main competition for the British empire in colonial North America during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries?

• Portugal

• England

• France

• Canada

Which of these was at one time a colony of Great Britain?

• France

• Canada

• Portugal

• England

Mercantilism was the principle that

• controlled more and more international trade.

• The economy of Southern colonies needed non-wage labor

• merchants and ship owners

• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.

As a result of the Age of Exploration, Western European nations

• controlled more and more international trade.
• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.
• Socialism
• merchants and ship owners

The system known as "Triangular Trade" involved

• North America, Europe, and Asia

• North America, Europe, and Africa.

• Asia, Europe, and Africa.

• North America, Europe, and Australia.

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.

• controlled more and more international trade.

• merchants and ship owners

• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.

"The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value."

Thomas Mun

England's Treasure by Foreign Trade

In this 1664 quotation from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, Thomas Mun is referring to which system?

• The economy of Southern colonies needed non-wage labor

• merchants and ship owners

• Socialism

• mercantilism

Slaves were originally brought to British North America for the purpose of

• Corn

• Pumpkin

• tobacco cultivation

• Wheat

Initial French colonization of North America was centered around which territory?

• Quebec
• London
• Greenville
• New York