Columbian Exchange

What was the goal of mercantilism for monarchs?

• take advantage of their colonies

• defeat all other nations in trade

• create a monopoly in a certain area

• build up your supply of gold

Mercantilism was an ________ system

• political

• economic

• religious

• military

Choose the answer that most accurately completes the chart above. 

• Triangular Trade
• Balance of Trade
• Northwest Passage
• Treaty of Tordesillas

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

• trail of tears
• The death trail
• The final passage
• the Middle passage

Slaves were brought to the New World to work on _________

• Plantations
• Factories
• building ships
• becoming traders

Mercantilism was ________.

• taking resources to the colonies to sell
• Trading with the french and Spanish
• Had nothing to do with trade
• Taking resources from the colonies to make money

Mercantilism is when

• Raw materials were bought cheaply by the colony and sold as refined materials to the 'Mother Country'
• Raw materials were bought cheaply by the 'Mother Country' and sold as refined materials to the colony
• When merchants sold their goods for high prices to working class citizens
• When working class citizens were forced to sell their products to make profits

Which was traded from the New World to the Old World?

• major diseases
• horses
• potatoes and corn
• slaves

When did the Columbian Exchange take place?

• Before 1492
• During the European Dark Ages
• After WW2
• After 1492

How did diseases impact the New World?

• They didn't
• They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
• They wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people
• They helped the natives beat the Spanish