Exploration and Colonization

European countries wanted to find a faster route to...?

• Asia
• Africa
• The north pole
• California

Which trading route was under threat in the 15th century?

• Silk Road

• Transatlantic Trade Route

• Indian Ocean Trade Route

• Mediterranean Trade Route

Which English colony was the first permanent settlement in North America?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• New York

A person who makes their living buying and selling goods?

• profit

• merchant

• barter

• navigation

The movement of animals, plants, and disease across the Atlantic Ocean after 1492.

• expedition

• colony

• Columbian Exchange

A water route which many Europeans in the 1500s believed connected the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• empire

• conquistador

• Northwest Passage

• merchant company

Which word means to force someone to work against his or her will?

• frontier

• missionary

• enslave

• mestizo

Which word means to send goods to another country?

• voyageur

• coureurs de bois

• import

• export

Which word means to bring in goods from another country for sale or use?

• voyageur

• coureurs de bois

• import

• export

An official document that grants its holder special rights.

• charter

• cash crop

• House of Burgesses

• pilgrim