New Empires in the Americas (Mod. 2)

What improvement to the caravel made it easier to steer than the older galleon?

• square sails

• flat bottoms

• steering wheel

• rudder in back

The _____ were the first Europeans to establish colonies in North America.

• English

• Vikings

• Spanish

• Portuguese

Why did the Europeans find it necessary to explore new lands?

• Europeans wanted to bring spices and other exotic goods from Asia.

• Europeans were looking for new markets for their manufactured goods.

• Cities were losing populations and the rulers wanted to bring more people in from unexplored lands to fill them.

• Europeans had developed new forms of production that made manufacturing more efficient, so they needed raw materials.

What was one consequence of the Doctrine of Discovery?

• Native people were forced to pay for lands the Europeans discovered.

• Native peoples were no longer entitled to lands they had always occupied.

• Europeans were forced to pay fro lands already occupied by native peoples.

• Europeans could take the land from the native peoples as long as they had their permission.

What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?

• Most of the Native Americans refused to work.

• Most of the Native Americans died from European diseases.

• The Europeans regarded the Native Americans too highly to make them work.

• The Europeans found it more economical to use the African slaves instead of the native peoples.

The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and 1500s is called the _______.

• New World

• Columbian Exchange

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas

Which place was Coronado the first European to discover?

• Coastal Florida

• Galveston Island

• Grand Canyon

• Mississippi River

The Spanish crown controlled migration to the new lands it discovered. They required that only _____ be allowed to settle there.

• Christians

• Jews

• Muslims

• non-Christians

A large farm.

• Viceroy

• Plantation

• Pueblo

• Mission

Spanish military leader.

• conquistador

• viceroy

• presidio

• mission