Exploration Colonization of the Americas

Primary Reasons for European Exploration

· Spread Christianity

· Economic development

· ?

Which of the following would best complete this list?

• Expand empires

• Promote self-government

• Locate new labor source

• Create political allies

European countries were motivated to explore because of

• Gold, God, and Glory

• Politics, science, and gold

• Fame, art, and science

• Riches, politics, and art

The Spanish built missions in the "New World" for what purpose?

• To protect the Indians from the British

• To fight the French fur traders

• To convert Native Americans to Christianity

• To explore Texas

Early European explorers who came from the "New World" were looking for a Northwest Passage in order to -

• prove the world was round

• improve trade with Native Americans

• explore the Great Lakes

• find a shorter trade route to Asia

This term refers to the process of establishing foreign control over an area by developing settlements, this is known as -

• Colonization
• Invasion

• Columbian Exchange
• Exploration

Which reason best completes this list?

• to spread democratic ideals

• to improve efficiency in manufacturing

• to locate potential military allies

• to claim new territory

Spanish colonists .....

• focused primarily on fur trading

• established Catholic missions

• promoted political freedom

• created an early system of public schools

A transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres.

• Mercantilism
• Colombian Exchange
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Spanish Armada

Mercantilism was an economic system that was created for

• free Republics to buy and sell goods all over.

• Kings and Queens to hide their treasures.

• colonies to get rich, rich, rich!

• the mother country to get rich from raw materials of a colony.

The global slave trade that transported between 10 and 15 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries was called

• The Middle Passage

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Triangle Trade

• The Columbian Exchange