Unit 1 - Colonial America Pretest

This term refers to the transfer of various plants, animals, and diseases between the eastern and western hemispheres

• Columbian Exchange

• Navigation Acts

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

______ was the name given to a trading route in the Atlantic with three stops

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Apartheid

• Middle Passage

The part of the triangular trade route where captured Africans (men, women, and children) were shipped to the Americans to be enslaved is called the _______.

• Slave Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Northwest Passage

• Middle Passage

What was the name of the economic system in which a mother country used the colonies it established to form a favorable balance of trade by exporting more than the country imported.

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Consumerism

• Communism

A system of forced labor used by many cultures throughout history that was also adopted in the Americas.

• Indentured Servitude

• Apartheid

• Headright System

• Slavery

What places are considered the Old World/Eastern Hemisphere?

• The Americas

• Europe

• Africa

• Both Europe and Africa

Which of the following places would be considered New World/Western Hemisphere?

• The United States

• Mexico

• Canada

• All of the above