People
Early Colonizing
Enslavement
Triangular Trade & the Colombian Exchange
Surprise
100
In 1492, this Italian sailed the Ocean Blue for the Queen of Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
These four European countries established colonies in present-day America.
What are Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands
100
This term describes the horrific transatlantic journey endured by enslaved Africans.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
These were the three points in triangular trade (continent or region).
What are Africa, the Americas, and Europe?
100
This is the place in the Americas in which Christopher Columbus landed first.
What is an island in the Caribbean, likely Barbados?
200
He "conquered" the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
200
This was the main activity of New France.
What is fur-trading?
200
This country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is Spain?
200
These were exported from Africa to the Americas in triangular trade.
What are enslaved Africans?
200
This was the result of the importation of valuable materials and treasures into Spain and the new wealth associated with it.
What is inflation?
300
He "conquered" the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
300
This was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s.
What was funding colonies in the Americas?
300
The transatlantic slave trade grew most rapidly when this country was actively importing slaves to Brazil.
What is Portugal?
300
These were imported into Africa from England and European nations?
What are guns and other manufactured goods?
300
This is why the English wanted to oust the Dutch from the Americas.
What is because the British wanted to join their southern and New England colonies?
400
This is the Spanish term for people of mixed with one parent who is Indigenous/Native descent and the other who is Spanish.
What is mestizo?
400
This is the term for the system that provided New Spain with a cheap labor source prior to the transatlantic slave trade.
What is the encomienda system?
400
This is what makes African enslavement in the Americas different from history in the rest of the world for all of time.
What is that it was lifelong, race-based, status was inherited, and slaves were treated like actual property (subhuman). (Give 2)
400
What was exported from the Americas? List three things.
What is sugar, coins, molasses, enslaved Africans, etc.
400
This economic system is based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit. (In other words, the concept that a country's wealth is based on the size and strength of its economy.)
What is mercantilism?
500
He was the Native American ruler who led the Native Americans to fight against English expansion into their area in King Philip's War.
Who is/was Metacom?
500
Which of the following areas was settled by the Dutch?
What is present day New York?
500
These are the four reasons that Europeans perceived Africans to be better slaves than the indigenous people of the Americas.
What are: 1. Skin color was distinct. 2. They knew had to farm. 3. They had immunity to European diseases. 4. They did not know the land or have allies to facilitate their escape.
500
This was the most detrimental part (thing being traded) of the Columbian Exchange for the people indigenous to the Americas.
What is disease? What are diseases?
500
WHat prompted the French and Indian War? What was the outcome? (MUST ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS CORRECTLY!)
What is English desire to expand westward? and the outcome was the ousting of the French from North America.
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