#2 European Exploration of the Americas Ms. Cofield

What was one of the main reasons that caused the Age of Exploration?

• To find a water route to Asia

• Gold

• Religious Freedom

• Trade

Which statement best describes the GREATEST impact of the European settlement on Native Americans?

• European settlers introduced tools and weapons to the colonies and developed a trading system with the Native Americans

• European settlers introduced new diseases and weapons to the colonies and caused the Native American population to decrease substantially

• European settles introduced Christianity to the colonies and converted the Native American population

• European settlers introduced slaves to the colonies and ended the need for the Native American labor

Which of the following best describes the Columbian Exchange?

• Plants and animals were transferred among Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas

• Columbus discovered new animals in the Americas

• New foods brought to Europe caused diseases

• Explorers shipped Native Americans to Europe

Which of these best describes the relationship between Native Americans and the French explorers?

• the French and Native Americans were always enemies

• the French and Native Americans were business partners

• the French and Native Americans were sometimes business partners and sometimes enemies.

• The French and Native Americans wanted to drive the British and their colonists of the land.

What did European nations hope to gain from a Northwest Passage?

• a way to reach the interior of North America and claim land

• a means to bring the Catholic Religion to North America

• a route (way) to reach Asia quicker and easier

• a route to avoid the Spanish Armada when traveling at sea

John Rolfe did two things to help the Jamestown Colony, what were they?

• Brought tobacco to grow and married Pocahontas

• Brought a new cash crop to grow and killed the Powhatan Chief

• Married Pocahontas and killed her father

• Married Pocahontas and took her England.

The primary reasons for colonization were...

• Green, Grief, Goodness

• Glow, Goop, Going

• God, Gold, Glory

• Grow, Grass, Gross

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.

• Slavery

• Conquistadors

• Columbian Exchange

• Missionaries

The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.

• Columbian Exchange

• Slavery

• Northwest Passage

• Conquistadors

A new settlement or territory, established and governed by a country in another land.

• Colony

• Columbian Exchange

• Slavery

• Northwest Passage