European Colonization of the Americas

Which religion was widely spread among indigenous people as a result of European colonization?

• Quechua

• Protestantism

• Candomble

• Catholicism

What is a mission?

• a group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a new land

• a large farm where cash crops are grown

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• a Spanish community for the religious conversion and training of Native Americans

Wrote about the mistreatment of Native Americans?

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Joel Barlow

• Bartolome de Las Casas

What is a colony?

• a group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a new land

• a large farm where cash crops are grown

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• a Spanish community for the religious conversion and training of Native Americans

All of the following were problems faced by the Jamestown settlers EXCEPT?

• environmental problems

• poor settlers' skills

• tension with the Native Americans

• attack from the Spanish

The action of buying and selling goods for commercial profit; commerce.

• goods

• trade

• commercial profit

• merchant

What country was NOT part of the European Colonization of the Americas?

• France

• Germany

• Spain

• England

What continents made up the "Old World"?

• Europe

• North America

• South America

• Asia

What kept Spain and Portugal from fighting over land in the New World?

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty or Tortillas

• Line of Demarcation

• Line of Democracy

Who got the land west of the Line of Demarcation?

• Britain

• France

• Portugal

• Spain