Geography of South America
This is the longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
The encomienda system was designed to benefit Spanish settlers in the Americas by granting them this.
What are Native American laborers?
This European country established the first successful permanent colony in the Americas in 1565, which became Florida.
What is Spain?
The African slave trade began in the Americas largely to meet the demand for labor in this type of agriculture.
What is plantation agriculture?
This European countries primarily colonized the modern day Unietd States.
Who are the British (England or Great Britain)
This mountain range runs along the western edge of South America, stretching from Venezuela to Chile.
What are the Andes Mountains?
nder the encomienda system, Spanish settlers were supposed to protect and convert the indigenous people to this religion.
What is Christianity?
This explorer is credited with discovering the New World in 1492 while sailing for Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term refers to the horrific journey that enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This original colonie region had high producing agricultural land.
Middle or Southern Region
This country is the largest by land area in South America.
What is Brazil?
This term describes the forced labor of indigenous people in the encomienda system.
What is exploitation?
The first permanent English colony in the Americas, founded in 1607, is called this.
What is Jamestown?
This European country was one of the first to engage in the transatlantic slave trade, beginning in the early 1500s.
What is Portugal?
These are the three regional areas of the original colonizaties in modern day United States.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
This desert is located on the west coast of South America, mostly in Chile, and is considered the driest place on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The encomienda system contributed to the decline in population of this group of people due to harsh labor conditions and diseases.
Who are the Native Americans?
his country established the first successful colonies in the Caribbean, including the island of Hispaniola.
What is Spain?
The majority of enslaved Africans were transported to these two regions in the Americas.
What are the Caribbean and South America?
These battles began the Revolutionary war. (You only need to name one.)
Lexington and Concord
The Amazon rainforest is primarily located in this country, which is home to over 60% of the forest.
What is Brazil?
The encomienda system was officially abolished in this century, after significant criticism from figures like Bartolomé de las Casas.
What is the 16th century?
This treaty, signed in 1494, divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This document, signed in 1807 by the United Kingdom, made it illegal to engage in the slave trade.
What is the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act?
The American Rvolutionary War began in this year.
1775