Latin America (History)

As a result of European imperialism, which of the following are the primary languages spoken in Latin America today?

• Italian and French

• Italian and German

• Spanish and Dutch

• Spanish and Portuguese

Which religion continues to dominate in Latin America today due to the influence of European imperialism?

• Catholicism

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Judaism

Which of the following contributed the MOST to the expansion of African slavery in North America during the late eighteenth century?

• new methods for organizing labor

• new methods for repressing votes

• new technological innovations for processing cotton

• new technological innovations for chopping tobacco

African slavery created which of the following economic shifts in the Lesser Antilles?

• from tobacco production to sugar production

• from sugar production to tobacco production

• from lumber production to cotton production

• from cotton production to lumber production

What led to an increase in the transatlantic slave trade in the fifteenth century?

• Europeans sought to replace the indigenous people forced to work as slaves after many were killed by diseases.

• Europeans needed trading partners because indigenous peoples would not trade with settlers in the Americas.

• Europeans wanted to quickly grow their colonial populations in order to provide better defense against attack.

• Europeans discovered new resources in the Americas that were in high demand in many African nations

The presence of Spanish conquistadors in the New World led to which of the following religious developments?

• the spread of Judaism

• the spread of Animism

• the spread of Catholicism

• the spread of Protestantism

Which European country had the GREATEST impact on the religion and language of modern-day Brazil?

• England

• France

• Portuga

• Spain

Why did early Spanish and Portuguese settlers force African people to work as slaves in Latin America?

• They needed labor to help them mine for coal.

• They needed labor to help them mine for gold

• They needed labor for cotton and tobacco plantations.

• They needed labor for sugarcane and coffee plantations.

How did the spread of disease in the Americas affect the transatlantic slave trade?

• European diseases killed many of the people forced into slavery before they reached the Americas, leading to a decrease in the transatlantic slave trade.

• Indigenous diseases killed many Europeans and caused them to abandon plantations in the tropics, leading to a decrease in the transatlantic slave trade.

• Indigenous diseases killed many of the people that Europeans brought to the Americas as slaves, leading to an increase in the transatlantic slave trade.

• European diseases killed much of the indigenous population that Europeans forced into slavery, leading to an increase in the transatlantic slave trade.

What was a major consequence of European colonization of South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

• Explorers returned to Europe with deadly diseases

• New World plants destroyed European ecosystems

• The transatlantic slave trade rapidly grew in volume.

• Many world empires went bankrupt and collapsed.