European Exploration and Colonization Quiz

Which characteristic is associated with Spanish colonists?

• Made money by trapping beavers for furs and trading with Natives.

• Established Missions and Presidios to spread Christianity.

• Conquistadors came in search of Gold and to gain new territory.

• Settled in Canada and central North America along rivers and lakes.

Which characteristic is associated with French colonists?

• Made money by trapping beavers for furs and trading with Natives.

• Established Missions and Presidios to spread Christianity.

• Conquistadors came in search of Gold and to gain new territory.

• Settled in Canada and central North America along rivers and lakes.

What is the goal of mercantilism?

• To promote free trade

• To accumulate wealth through balanced trade

• To increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

• To encourage the colonies to become economically independent

What do you call the system of trade routes used by England, the Colonies, and Africa in which raw materials, manufactured goods, and enslaved people were traded?

• The Silk Road

• The Spice Route

• The Triangular Trade

• The Colonial Exchange

What made plantations profitable?

• The use of advanced machinery

• The high demand for plantation tours

• The use of enslaved labor

• The implementation of crop rotation

What did the colonies provide England in the Triangular Trade?

• Spices and silks

• Gold and silver

• Raw materials and crops

• Manufactured goods

What was the route from Africa to the Colonies in which people were enslaved known as?

• The Great Passage

• The Middle Passage

• The Atlantic Crossing

• The Transatlantic Route

Which crop defined the economy of the Middle Colonies?

• Wheat

• Cotton

• Tobacco

• Sugar

Who were allowed to vote in colonial governments?

• All men and women who owned property.

• Only white men who owned property.

• All men regardless of property ownership.

• Only women who owned property.

What is the concept of Salutary Neglect?

• The strict enforcement of parliamentary laws in the colonies

• The idea that distance between England and the colonies contributed to forms of self-government

• The policy of the colonies to ignore the laws of England

• The decision by the colonies to seek independence from England