Midterm 1 Review

Which "G" of Exploration is described below?

"Countries in the 'Old World' were coming to the 'New World' for Wealth and Economic Gain"

• God

• Glory

• Gold

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Werowocomoco
• Yorktown
• Richmond
• Jamestown

The trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas in 1400s and 1500s was known as

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

• The Slave Trade

What devastating disease killed thousands of Native Americans

• flu

• chicken pox

• smallpox

• mumps

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

• to share riches and wealth with them
• to provide more workers for the plantations
• to give them diseases
• to spread Christianity

What is the Middle Passage?

• Water Route Through North America
• European slave trade with India
• European Slave trade with North America
• European slave trade with the Americas

The middle passage was apart of what trading system

• Triangular Trade

• African Trade

• Square Trade

• Gold Mine Trade

a large farm in the Southern colonies with enslaved people from Africa that grew tobacco, rice, and/or indigo.

• plantation

• staple crop

• Middle Passage

• immigrant

Colonial region that focused on shipping and manufacturing

• New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)
• Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland)
• Southern Colonies (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)

Colonial region 
1. focused on cash crops like cotton and tobacco
2. slavery became much more important in the southern colonies than any other colonial region.

• New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)
• Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland)
• Southern Colonies (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)