European Exploration of the Americas

Why did European countries mainly compete to control territory in the New World?

• to profit from trade with Native Americans

• to gain access to a vast supply of raw materials

• to acquire fertile land for agricultural production

• to seek protection from attack by Native Americans

What was the main reason Europeans began exploring in the 1400s?

• To find a trade route to Asia

• To find the Americas

• To fight the Chinese

• To discover new lands

What three words summarize the key motives for European expansion?

• God

• Glory

• Gold

• Geography

• Guilt

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

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The impact of mercantilism was that

• The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

• Trade was limited in the Atlantic

• The Colony grew wealthy

• The Mother Country grew wealthy

What was the main motivation of European exploration? 

• Lesiure
• Profit
• Slaves

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• Bartering system involving slaves
• system of money started by Columbus
• transfer of crops, animals, people, and diseases
• the bank of Christopher Columbus

What was the goal of the Spanish missionaries who came to the Americas?

• to teach native people Spanish
• to educate the native people
• convert the native people to Christanity
• to teach the native people French

What was an important economic activity for both the French and Dutch settlements? 

• slave trade
• food trade
• fur trade
• disease trade

What event helped end the conflict between Jamestown settlers and American Indians? 

• Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
• The Iroquois Confederacy treaty
• The French and Indian War
• Powhatan agreed to move away from the French