Vocab
Columbus and European Exploration
The Columbian Exchange
The Triangular Trade and Middle Passage
Life Under Slavery
100
a Spanish soldier who came to the Americas in the 1500s and took land and resources from Indigenous people
Conquistador
100
What were the primary reasons for European Exploration?
To spread religion, gain wealth, and gain power
(God, Gold, and Glory)
100
What was the Columbian Exchange?
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas
100
The exchange of goods, enslaved people, and raw materials between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas
The Triangular Trade
100
For which purpose did Europeans want to enslave Africans?
a. to build cities
b. to supervise Indigenous people
c. to teach farming techniques
d. to work on plantations
d. to work on plantations
200
the treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved
Slavery
200
What was Christopher Columbus searching for when he found the Americas?
a. more land for Spain to claim
b. a new trade route to Asia
c. a group of Indigenous people
d. freedom from government control
b. a new trade route to asia
200
Why were domesticated herd animals from Europe harmful to many Indigenous people in the Americas?
The people caught diseases from the animals.
200
The voyage of ships carrying enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to the Americas
Middle Passage
200
What does this image depict?
conditions during the Middle Passage.
300
a large farm on which crops are grown by free or enslaved workers
Plantation
300
Indigenous people were impacted by the European settlers by
a. being sent to Europe to work as slaves
b. opening schools to teach Europeans about their language and religion
c. learning about new ways to structure government
d. being forced to take on Europeans ways of living
d. being forced to take on Europeans ways of living
300
Who directly benefited from the forced labor of enslaved people in the Americas?
a. workers brought from Africa
b. European traders and merchants
c. Indigenous people in the Americas
b. European traders and merchants
300
How did the triangular trade affect West Africans?
a. They were cheated when they tried to sell manufactured goods.
b. They profited by producing cotton and other raw materials.
c. They were able to purchase their own land in the Americas.
d. They were kidnapped and sold in the Americas.
d. They were kidnapped and sold in the Americas.
300
On the way to the Americas, some enslaved people tried to
a. get a job
b. build their own ships
c. commit mutiny
d. contact family at home
c. commit mutiny
400
the act of one country establishing control over another foreign country
Colonization
400
What effect did Columbus’s arrival have on the Taino people?
a. The Taino people gained new knowledge of European ways and survival skills
b. The Taino people were exposed to starvation, illness, and hard labor
c. The Taino people profited from the riches gained by working gold mines and sugar farms.
d. The Taino people were divided into new tribes known as Indians.
b. The Taino people were exposed to starvation, illness, and hard labor
400
During the Columbian Exchange, _________ were some of the exports from the Americas to Europe.
a. Natural medicines and bandages
b. Food, crops, and tobacco
c. War, weapons, and bullets
d. Cargo ships and wagons
b. Food, crops, and tobacco
400
Europeans began enslaving Africans
a. after a great number of Indigenous people died.
b. when Indigenous people began raising crops.
c. after Europeans began selling goods to Indigenous people.
d. before Indigenous people met Europeans.
a. after a great number of Indigenous people died.
400
After Nat Turner’s Rebellion, what did White people in the South do?
a. They considered freeing enslaved people.
b. They made it illegal to help a fugitive from slavery.
c. They moved their enslaved people to other states.
d. They passed harsh slave codes.
d. They passed harsh slave codes.
500
an outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads quickly and over a wide geographic area
Epidemic
500
Columbus’s building of Spanish colonies in the Americas led to
a. increased conflict between countries in Europe over their borders.
b. less interest and exploration of Asia.
c. desire by other countries to claim their own land in the Americas.
d. little exploration into other parts of the Americas
c. desire by other countries to claim their own land in the Americas.
500
During the Columbian Exchange, which import to the Americas helped Indigenous people hunt and travel?
Horses
500
Why did the triangular trade route develop between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
a. It allowed for trade in one form of currency.
b. It provided direct travel routes for its citizens.
c. It supported a war between the continents of Europe and Africa.
d. It brought goods and people to where they could be sold for profit.
d. It brought goods and people to where they could be sold for profit.
500
What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?
to help enslaved people escape slavery