5th grade SS Ch 2 lesson 3 quiz

Which of the following was the greatet short-term effect of Spanish colonization on American Indians?

• It sharply decreased their population

• it opened to them to European ideas

• it gave them new crops to grow

• it led to their disappearance from the America

What caused the Pilgrims to settle in New England?

• they wanted to escape poverty and starvation

• they wanted to take part in the fur trade

• they wanted to practice their religion freely

• they wanted to convert American Indians to Christianity

What was the main cause of death among African captives being transported from the Americas on slave ships?

• Captives were brutally beaten by slave ship captains

• Diseases spread quickly in the tightly packed holds of ships

• most captives died from a lack of food and water

• slave members resulted in thousands of death

Which of the following statements summarizes a result of the French and Indian War?

• it gave France control over the Mississippi River

• it gave British colonists more freedom

• it marked the end of French power in North America

• it destroyed the American Indian alliances

The first French colonists in North America were mostly interested in

• finding silver and gold

• gaining religious freedom

• taking part in the fur trade

• building farms and plantations