Topic 2 Lesson 4: Competing for colonies

What was an effect of mercantilism on the colonies in the 1600s?

•  It caused Christianity to spread quickly among the native peoples of the Americas.

•  It discouraged the private ownership of property in the Americas

•  It led to fierce rivalry between European nations over territory in the Americas

• It forged an alliance between Spain and Portugal against the other colonial powers

A desire to spread Christianity was one reason for European exploration. Which two forms of Christianity were rivals in the exploration of the Americas?

• Protestantism and Judaism

• Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism

• Lutheranism and Protestantism

• Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

Most English and Dutch colonies in North America were situated

•  in the southwest

• along the mid-Atlantic coast

• along the Great Lakes

• in the southeast

In the 1500s and early 1600s, explorers from England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to find

• a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

•  a way to reach Asia by sailing around Africa.

• the elusive “Silk Road” that linked Europe to China

• the “fountain of youth” mentioned in Native American legend

After Europeans began colonizing the Americas, chickens changed the diet of many Native American peoples. This is an effect of

•  mercantilism

• the Reformation

• the Columbian Exchange

•  peninsulares

In contrast to other European colonizers, French colonists in North America

• did not try to convert Native Americans to Christianity

• had generally good relations with Native Americans

•  arrived more quickly and in much greater numbers

• had no interest in finding a Northwest Passage