WorksheetsLatin America Colonization
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?
They wanted gold to help improve their GDP
They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon
Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in sugar cane plantations and haciendas
Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians
What decimated the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the new World?
Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery
The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as small pox.
The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian War
The indigenous populations had more deaths than births
The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as what?
Columbian Exchange
Portuguese Revolution
Spanish Revolution
Transatlantic Slave trade
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americans?
The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease
Their religion required them to convert all immigrants
It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people
They wanted to increase the standard of living of black Africans
What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil form the African Slave Trade?
Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today
Many of the haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today
Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today
Many of the descendants form the Black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines
What religion did European explorers bring with them during the colonization of the New World?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Mormonism
The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans
BRICS
Naturalization
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Internment
Term referring to the native peoples of a particular place
incognito
inconsequential
indigenous
ingenious
Movements of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures between the Old World and the new World
Colombian Exchange
The Arabian Exchange
The South American Exchange
The Great Exchange
Which item was NOT introduced to Europe during the Colombian exchange?
horses
peppers
potatoes
tomatoes
Which item was NOT introduced to Latin America during the Colombian exchange?
horses
potatoes
peppers
tomatoes
