Chapter 4

Question 0

Where did the largest number of slaves in New York work?

Answer 0

Brazil

Question 1

How long was there slavery in Africa?

Answer 1

950 years; from 650 to 1600 or 1500s-1840

Question 2

What is the “Middle Passage”?

Answer 2

middle leg of transatlantic trade from africa to the new world in which slaves were shipped

Question 3

What is the name for a rise in prices caused by an increase wealth?

Answer 3

inflation

Question 4

What is the name for belief in private ownership and investment in wealth?

Answer 4

capitalism

Question 5

What is the name for belief that cash-not land- is the basis for wealth?

Answer 5

mercantilism

Question 6

What was the bigges impact of slavery on the Americas?

Answer 6

economic and cultural development

Question 7

What country colonized Brazil?

Answer 7

Portugal

Question 8

Which explorer claimed Florida for Spain?

Answer 8

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 9

Which explorer conquered the Aztecs in what is now Mexico?

Answer 9

Hernando Cortes

Question 10

Which explorer conquered the Incas in what is now Peru?

Answer 10

Francisco Pizzaro

Question 11

What came to America for “God, Glory, and Gold?”

Answer 11

Spain/Spanish mostly

Question 12

Who came to America for the fur trade?

Answer 12

Dutch and French

Question 13

Who came to America to live (settle)?

Answer 13

Europeans (mainly british)

Question 14

Who colonize the Caribbean in the 1600s?

Answer 14

French, English, Dutch, Spanish

Question 15

Who first explored the harbor of what is now New York City?

Answer 15

Giovanni de Verrazzano

Question 16

Who first settled at Jamestown in 1607?

Answer 16

puritans

Question 17

Who settled in Massachusetts in the 1620s?

Answer 17

Pilgrims

Question 18

Who was the explorer after whom the western continents are named?

Answer 18

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 19

Who was the explorer who “discovered” North America jn 1492?

Answer 19

Christopher Columbus