Review: European Colonization in the Americas

Who came to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity

• missionaries

• conquistadors

• coureurs de bois

• settlers

Who came to take the land for Spain by force

• conquistadors

• coureurs de bois

• missionaries

• settlers

Who came to make a living by trapping animals for their fur

• coureurs de bois

• voyageurs

• habitants

• seigneurs

the practice of treating people as something to be bought, sold, and used for labor

• slavery

• democracy

• barter

• immigration

What is the trading back and forth of people, plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

What is a settlement that is started in one territory by people who came from another territory

• colony

• empire

• city-state

• metropolis

What was a way that all European groups affected Indigenous people?

• signed treaties with them

• brought diseases that killed them

• enslaved them

• converted them to Christianity

The primary positive benefit of the Columbian Exchange was...

• the exchange of food products between Europe and the Western Hemisphere
• the introduction of horses into Europe
• the introduction of cattle into Europe
• the exchange of architectural design techniques between the two continents

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The primary negative consequence of the Columbian exchange was the exchange of...

• food products that led to debilitating illnesses for both American Indians and Europeans
• concepts of autocratic governments that delayed the development of democracy
• epidemic diseases introduced from Europe into the Americas
• modern methods of warfare introduced to Europeans by American Indians

Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Columbian Exchange?

• It was named after Christopher Columbus.

• The exchange of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.

• It increased the variety of foods throughout the world.

• All of the above are true of the Columbian Exchange.

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