APUSH Immigration & Migration Content

When did the Atlantic Slave Trade begin?

• 1400s
• 1500s
• 1600s
• 1700s

The Spanish first moved into the North American southwest in an effort to

• obtain precious metals (like gold and silver)
• establish missions
• impose Spanish culture
• strengthen the security of New Spain

15th and 16th century Spanish exploration and conquest created a racially mixed culture known as

• Mulatto

• Mestizo

• Chicano

• Latino

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained...

• a significant new source of staple food crops
• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers
• advanced medical techniques that extended the life-span of Native Americans
• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden

French immigrants to the New World tended to inhabit modern day...

• Canada

• Florida

• Hudson River Valley

• Carolinas

Most seventeenth century English migrants to the British North American colonies were

• commercial agents

• laborers

• religous dissenters

• aristocrats

To encourage settlers to come to Jamestown, the headright system offered ___ to people who would pay for someone's passage.

• Land 
• Employment
• Profit-sharing
• Passage to Virginia

The journey of a newly enslaved person from Africa to the "New World" was known as

• Triangular Trade Route

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Bermuda Triangle

In the late 1600s, the number of enslaved Africans in the southern British colonies increased dramatically, mainly due to a decline in...

• The availability of Native American workers

• The prices paid for African slaves

• The availability of indentured servants from Europe

• The need for unskilled labor in the North

Which event most directly promoted the shift from indentured servitude to African slavery?

• Shay's Rebellion

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Stono rebellion

• Pueblo Rebellion