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Foundations Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name for the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.

a)
Transatlantic Trade
b)
Globalization Era
c)
Columbian Exchange
d)
Cultural Diffusion
2.

What was the name of the disease that spread and killed most Native Americans during the 15th and 16th centuries?

a)
Measles
b)
Smallpox
c)
Influenza
d)
Typhus
3.

What year did Colombus land in the "new world"

a)
1485
b)
1492
c)
1500
d)
1490
4.

Pre-Colombian Native American civilization in Mexico

a)
Aztec civilization
b)
Mayan civilization
c)
Olmec civilization
d)
Inca civilization
5.

What was NOT one of the reasons Europeans explored the new world?

a)

God

b)

Gold

c)

Glory

d)

Goats

6.

What type of Crop was Sugar?

a)

Old World

b)

New World

7.

What type of crop was Tobacco?

a)

New World

b)

Old World

8.

What were some reasons English people came to the American Colonies?

a)

Religious reasons

b)

Pursuit of wealth

c)

get out of debt

d)

wanted to fight native americans

9.

Out of the three regional colonies in the Americans, which one had plantations and slaves?

a)

New England

b)

Middle

c)

Southern

10.

what was a major cash crop that grew in North Carolina and Virginia?

a)

Sugar

b)

Coffee

c)

corn

d)

Tobacco