Module 10.5 - 10.7

Question 1

What area in the Americas was controlled by the French?

Answer 1

Canada and the Missisppi Valley

Question 2

What area in the Americas was controlled by the British?

Answer 2

East Coast ​​

Question 3

What area in the Americas was controlled by the the Spanish?

Answer 3

Central and Southwest US (Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma Also Florida)

Question 4

What area did the Dutch come to control? ​

How did they lose it? ​

Answer 4

New Netherlands (New York) ​​

English pushed the Dutch out

Question 5

What problem would countries like France and the Netherlands face with colonization?​

Answer 5

They could face stronger coountries for control of North America. Also, their people did not want to colonize these new territories.

Question 6

Describe the different European nation’s relationships with Native Americans. What would come from these interactions?

Answer 6

The English and the Spanish were not friendly and fought with the Natives over land and religion, therefore war increased. The French and the Dutch were agreeable in order to trade with the Natives.

Question 7

Why was there such a large demand for African labor? Give multiple reasons.

Answer 7

Europeans needed a lot of people to farm their cash crops and the Natives were dying of diseases or refusing to work.

Question 8

Describe the history of slavery in Africa?

Answer 8

African slavery had already existed for centuries. Leaders sold war prisoners for $$$.

Question 9

What was the Atlantic Slave trade? Describe the process.

Answer 9

T​he buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. Spain and Portugal would lead slavery into the Americas.

Question 10

Which country would dominate the slave trade by 1690? What was happening to the slave population by this time?

Answer 10

England, The slave populations was growing from importations and having children.

Question 11

How did the institution of slavery change in the Americas?

Answer 11

Americans put Slave to work on farms.

Question 12

How did African rulers contribute to the slave trade?

Answer 12

African tulers traded Africans for gold, guns and other goods.

Question 13

What was the Triangular trade?

Answer 13

Triangular transaltlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were caarried between Europe, Africa and Americas​​.

Question 14

What is the Middle Passage? ​

Answer 14

A voyage that brought captured Afrivans to the Americas.

Question 15

What were conditions like on the voyage to the Americas? ​

Answer 15

The condiditons were extremely harsh, Many slaves were packed into the ship, many slaved died and were abused.

Question 16

Describe the harsh life faced by slaves when they reached the new world. How did slaves fight back?

Answer 16

​Life was horrible. Slaves had to work nonstop and farm the cash crops. The slaves fought back by breaking tools, working slowly and escaping.

Question 17

How did the slave trade affect both Africa and the Americas?

Answer 17

n Africa, numerous generations lost their fittest members, families wer broken apart and guns were introduced. In America, it gave economic and cultural development, the labor helped some colonies survive and it created cultural impact that is still present today (music)

Question 18

What were some of the effects of the colonization of America?

Answer 18

Migration of people, new trade items, new societies, and new businesses arose in America.

Question 19

What was the Columbian Exchange?

What were some of the goods that were exchanged?

Answer 19

Global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the Colonization of the Americas.
Squash, corn, turkey, vanilla, pumpkin, potato and tobacco.

Question 20

List positive and negative effects of the Columbian Exchange:

Answer 20

Positive: new sources of food and nutrition (potatoes)
Negative: diseases that were brought to the Americas and killed many people, weeks came with new plants, clearing of trees for farms.

Question 21

What did the establishment of colonial empires and the new wealth from the Americas prompt?

Answer 21

New Businessss and trade practices. This would change the face of Europe.

Question 22

What is capitalism? Who would this type of economic system benefit?

Answer 22

Economic system based on private ownership and investment of resources like money for profit. This would benefit anyone.

Question 23

What group of people would gain considerable wealth from overseas trade?

Answer 23

Merchants

Question 24

Explain MERCHANTILISM:

Answer 24

$$$$ = POWER ​​ ​country’s power depended mainly on its wealth. Wealth, after all, allowed nations to build strong navies and purchase vital goods. As a result, the goal of every nation became the attainment of as much wealth as possible.

Question 25

What is inflation? Describe the factors that lead to inflation.

Answer 25

​Inflation is the increase in the prices of goods. The factors that led to it was the economic activity in Europe and it led to an overall increase in many nation’s money supply.

Question 26

What does it mean to have a favorable balance of trade?

Answer 26

sell more goods than you buy

Question 27

What do colonies provide for their mother countries? (2 things)

Answer 27

Raw materials and new markets for trade

Question 28

What does it mean if many European country’s economies become interdependent? ​

Answer 28

Econonies are tied together and if there’s is a change in one economy there is a change in all.