Lessons 11.5/11.6-Exploration

What was one main reason why the slave trade greatly expanded beginning around the 1500s?

• Africans gave up trying to resist capture by European slave traders.
• Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies.
• Europeans needed more enslaved people to manage the arrival of new colonial goods.

The triangular trade consisted of three legs...involving three places Europe, Africa and Asia

• True
• False

Which statement describes the third and final leg of the triangular trade?

• American goods were sold in Europe.
• Enslaved Africans were sold in the Americas.
• European goods were sold in Africa.
• European profits were used to buy plantations in the Americas.

Why was there such a high death rate during the Middle Passage?

• Africans were branded and separated from their families.
• Africans died of diseases and mistreatment.
• Many ships were sunk by pirates and privateers.
• The captains of slave ships were poor navigators.

Which of the following conclusions about the slave trade is most valid based on the historical record?

• It had a negative effect on millions of Africans.
• It prevented Brazil from becoming a prosperous country.
• It caused Europeans to establish colonies in the Americas.
• It caused Africans to unite and support the abolition of slavery.

What was an effect of the movement of foods like corn and potatoes from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere?

• Foods from the Americas contributed to population growth especially in Europe
• Foods from the Americas contributed to a rise in food prices around the world.
• Foods from Europe did not grow well in the Old World and famine resulted.
• Foods from the Americas never became widely grown in Africa.

Which two events were most directly responsible for major population migrations in the 1700s?

• the slave trade within Africa and potato famine
• the Commercial Revolution and Atlantic slave trade
• the Commercial Revolution and price revolution
• the Columbian Exchange and Atlantic slave trade

Which statement correctly summarizes an economic development that was part of the Commercial Revolution in the 1500s?

• Entrepreneurs made sure that no new laws imposed taxes or tariffs on businesses.
• Entrepreneurs were more interested in investing in agriculture than in global trade.
• Prices rose as more money, silver, and gold became available.
• Colonies were forced to import raw materials and export manufactured goods.

Which statement describes a characteristic of the free enterprise system of capitalism that expanded in Europe in the 1500s?

• Most businesses were owned and regulated by governments.
• Most businesses were privately operated by risk-taking entrepreneurs.
• Most businesses had to follow the rules established by churches and town guilds.
• Most businesses were freed from burdensome bank loans with interest.

According to mercantilists, what was the purpose of colonies?

• to export manufactured goods to parent countries
• to import luxuries from parent countries at discounted prices
• to provide inexpensive resources and raw materials to parent countries
• to reduce competition and tariffs