Chapter 20 Vocabulary Quiz

________________________________ was the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Columbian exchange

• Trail of Tears

Land controlled by another country is a ____________________.

• colony

• homeland

• corporation

• encomienda

________________________ is a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it.

• colony

• Middle Passage

• encomienda

• plantation

A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits is a _________________________________.

• encomienda

• joint stock company

• plantation

• manor system

______________________ is a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

• mestizo

• conquistador

• Pilgrim

• Puritan

A group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England were the _____________________.

• mestizos

• conquistadors

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

____________________________ was the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought is called ______________________.

• mercantilism

• capitalism

• joint-stock company

• Slave trade

________________________________ was a conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America.

• American Revolution

• French and Indian War

• World War I

• Civil War

The Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th Century were ________________________.

• mestizo

• conquistador

• gold diggers

• convicts