Chapter Four

Question 1

Sea captain who sailed the Atlantic in 1492

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

Lands that are controlled by another nation

Answer 2

Colonies

Question 3

Spaniard who landed in Mexico and conquered the Aztecs

Answer 3

Hernando Cortés

Question 4

Spanish Conquerors

Answer 4

Conquistadors

Question 5

The Aztec leader

Answer 5

Montezuma II

Question 6

Conquistador who conquered the incas

Answer 6

Francisco Pizarro

Question 7

Mixed Spanish and Native American

Answer 7

Mestizo

Question 8

System where natives ranched, farmed, or mined for Spanish landlords

Answer 8

Encomienda

Question 9

Claimed region of Quebec that became the base of France’s colonial empire known as…

Answer 9

New France

Question 10

English settlement in 1607 that was a disaster

Answer 10

Jamestown

Question 11

A group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England

Answer 11

Pilgrims

Question 12

A group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts bay in the early 1600s

Answer 12

Puritans

Question 13

The Dutch holdings in North America

Answer 13

New Netherland

Question 14

The dispute over land claims in the Ohio Valley which led to war between British and French

Answer 14

French and Indian War

Question 15

The Native American ruler, also known as king Phillip

Answer 15

Metacom

Question 16

The buying and selling of Africans for work in America

Answer 16

Atlantic Slave trade

Question 17

Trade route network that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Answer 17

Triangular Trade

Question 18

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies was known as…

Answer 18

Middle passage

Question 19

The global transfer of food, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas

Answer 19

Colombian exchange

Question 20

The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries

Answer 20

Commercial Revolution

Question 21

Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit

Answer 21

Capitalism

Question 22

Company that involved a number of people pooling their wealth for a common purpose

Answer 22

Joint-stock committee

Question 23

A country’s power depended mainly on its wealth

Answer 23

Mercantilism

Question 24

When you sell more goods than you bought

Answer 24

Favorable balance of trade

Question 25

Why did Columbus set sail on the Atlantic?

Answer 25

To find an alternate trade route to Asia

Question 26

List three goals of the Spanish in the Americas

Answer 26

1. the desire to attain great amounts of riches
2. to establish claims on as much land as possible
3. to colonize as much land as possibleg

God gold and glory

Question 27

Why did the Popé lead a rebellion against the spanish?

Answer 27

the Spanish were oppressing and abusing the natives.

Question 28

What did the Europeans mostly grow in their Caribbean colonies?

Answer 28

Sugar, tobacco plants

Question 29

What was the result of the French and Indian war?

Answer 29

French surrendered most of their land, British seized control of nearly the entire eastern half of North America

Question 30

What factors led European colonists to use Africans to resupply their labor force?

Answer 30

African pre exposer to European diseases, the new land would be unfamiliar, and they could’t blend in with others if they escaped.

Question 31

Describe the conditions on board a Slave ship.

Answer 31

Africans were packed into the dark holds. Victims to whippings, beatings, and diseases. Captives lived with their vomit and wastes

Question 32

Name several way in which enslaved Africans resisted their position in the Americas.

Answer 32

working as slow as possible
breaking their tools
uprooting plants

Question 33

Why was the introduction of corn and potatoes to Europe and Asia so significant?

Answer 33

The vitamins and minerals increased the lifespan of the world’s population

Question 34

Explain the economic policy of mercantilism.

Answer 34

to gain as much wealth as possible