Early US Semester Exam Study Guide

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What is the economic theory whereby countries gain power by building up their wealth?

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

• Communism

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What effect did European migration have on the indigenous people of the Americas?

• Colonies imitated the culture and social patterns of their mother countries.

• A rigid class system developed in Latin America based on birth status (creoles, mestizos, etc.)

• The end of the Aztec & Incan Empires.

• All of the above

• None of the above,

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One main reason for European exploration was to

• conquer Africa

• spread Christianity

• discover new religions

• discover new animals

T1

Who were the first Europeans in North America?

• The Dutch

• The English

• The Vikings

• The Vandals

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What was the Columbian Exchange?  

• A widespread exchange of exotic and lucrative goods from the New World to the Old World

• An agreement between Columbia and Africa to exchange spices for slaves

• A military coup attempting to dethrone the Columbian prince

• A financial crisis in Latin America that began in Columbia

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How did the Columbian Exchange impact global economics?

• The Kings of colonizers kept all the money for themselves

• New industries like cattle ranching and coffee growing were created

• Financial gaps in society widened

• Trade became stagnant

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The brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and Americas was the  

• Middle Passage

• Strait of Gibraltar

• Triangle of Trade

• Columbian Strait

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Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?

• the eastern coast of North America

• the southern tip of South America

• the coast of what is today Panama

• an island in the Caribbean Sea

What was the Triangle Trade?

Answer explanation

The Triangle Trade brought slaves from Africa to the Americas. It brought sugar tobacco, and cotton from the Americas to Europe. It brought textiles, rum, and manufactured goods from Europe to Africa.

The triangle trade involved the new world, the old world, and Africa. Good were traded back and forth in the form of a triangle.

New world to the old world to Africa and back to the new world.

It was a trade between three different ports where arms, textiles, and wine were sent from Europe to Africa, enslaved people were sent from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee were sent from the Americas back to Europe. The triangle trade was the trade of goods and people between the Americas, Europe, and Africa,

Delivering arms, textiles and wine from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and sugar top from the Americas to Europe.

T2

What effect did the customs duties imposed by the Navigation Acts in the 1600s have on North America?

• The Dutch were able to take back a large share of England's global trade.

• England was able to strengthen its navy and defeat the Dutch.

• The American colonies shifted from agriculture to a manufacturing economy.

• The demand for goods from the American colonies plummeted.