WorksheetsColonialism Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When a country regulates its colonies' imports & exports to profit from trade it is called ____________.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Colonialism
c)
Feudalism
d)
Investments
2.
The period of time when Europeans traveled the world in search of goods & trade partners is called _________________.
a)
The Middle Ages
b)
The Classical Age
c)
The Age of Exploration
d)
The Neolithic Revolution
3.
The transfer of foods, plants, & animals between the “Old” & “New” Worlds is called ______________.
a)
Smallpox
b)
Disease
c)
Famine
d)
The Columbian Exchange
4.
The selling and transporting of African slaves to the new world colonies is called _________________.
a)
Plantation
b)
Colonialism
c)
The transatlantic slave trade
d)
Herding
5.
Goods made here and sold to other countries are called ___________.
a)
Exports
b)
Imports
c)
Commodities
d)
Labor
6.
Goods bought from other countries are called ______________.
a)
Exports
b)
Imports
c)
Commodities
d)
Labor
7.
Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops are called _____________.
a)
Plantations
b)
Colonies
c)
Laborers
d)
Exports
8.
Another word for work is ____________.
a)
Exports
b)
Imports
c)
Commodities
d)
Labor
9.
The exploitation by a stronger country of a weaker one is called _____________.
a)
Feudalism
b)
Colonialism
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Protestantism
10.
A settlement far from the country that rules it is called _______________.
a)
A plantation
b)
Labor
c)
A trade route
d)
A colony
11.
Between 1500 and 1750, sugar and tobacco were the top ____________ produced on Latin American plantations using enslaved laborers.
a)
Animals
b)
Commercial Products
c)
Laborers
d)
Plantations
12.
A country is using the policy called Mercantilism when it regulates its colonies’ imports and exports to produce a favorable balance of ____________?
a)
Slaves
b)
Trade
c)
Migration
d)
Salt
13.
The desire to control sources of _____________ was a key factor fueled competition between European countries for colonies in the Americas.
a)
Boats
b)
Salt mines
c)
Gold and Silver
d)
U.S. Dollars
14.
The term mercantilism is best described as an _____________ policy in which a colonial power controls trade.
a)
economic
b)
archaeological
c)
religious
d)
psychological
15.
Acquiring [getting] colonies to provide a favorable balance of trade a key aspect of ______________.
a)
Feudalism
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Command Economies
d)
Hunting and Gathering
16.
Development of a European-dominated global trade network was an economic result of the ____________ exchange.
a)
Peruvian
b)
Columbian
c)
Agricultural
d)
Spartan
17.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the primary goal of mercantilism as practiced by European countries was to increase their supply of _______________ through a favorable balance of trade.
a)
monks
b)
churches
c)
peasants
d)
gold and silver
18.
The introduction of new __________ to Europe was one major effect of the Columbian Exchange.
a)
technologies
b)
food crops
c)
guns
d)
books
19.
Transmission of communicable [contagious] _____________ was an unintended consequence of Spain’s colonization of the Americas.
a)
camels
b)
foods
c)
diseases
d)
leaders
20.
Many African communities faced economic disaster due to the ___________________.
a)
transatlantic slave trade
b)
potato famine
c)
crusades
d)
invention of the printing press
21.
The largest percentage of African slaves were brought to the _____________ islands, also called the "West Indies".
a)
Spanish
b)
Caribbean
c)
Mediterranean
d)
Canadian
22.
Power shifted in Africa from inland to the _________ during the transatlantic slave trade so that slaves could be loaded into boats.
a)
Forest
b)
Desert
c)
Rivers
d)
Coast
23.
Back in Africa, local cultures and economies were __________ due to increased violence and inequality.
a)
improved
b)
helped
c)
enriched
d)
destroyed
24.
The two nations first to colonize parts of the Americas were ______________.
a)
The U.S. and Brazil
b)
Spain and Portugal
c)
The Ottoman Empire and Egypt
d)
Canada and Iceland
25.
The most deadly contagious disease that the colonizers unintentionally brought to the New World was ________________, which killed over 90% of the Native Americans.
a)
chicken pox
b)
HIV
c)
smallpox
d)
Syphilis
26.
When Christopher Columbus traveled to and found the "New World" it was ___________.
a)
totally empty
b)
populated by Native Americans
c)
full of only animals and plants
d)
equally as advanced as the Old World
27.
Sugar and Tobacco farming in the New World encouraged slavery because these crops require a large ________ force to grow and process.
a)
Labor
b)
Printing Press
c)
Books
d)
Church
28.
The ________________ had the negative effect of communicable diseases killing the majority of New World inhabitants.
a)
Columbian Roullette
b)
Columbus Shuffle
c)
Christopher Columbus Trade
d)
Columbian Exchange
29.
In the Columbian exchange, Europe benefited from new __________ like potato and corn while the Americas benefited from new food animals like pigs and cows.
a)
labor
b)
plantations
c)
innovations
d)
food crops
30.
European countries colonized the New World in order to gain gold and silver and have access to new ______________ to manufacture and export.
a)
raw materials
b)
clothes
c)
books
d)
technologies
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