Exploration and Colonization Test
Portuguese sailor who in 1488 found the Southern Tip of Africa, which he called the "Cape of Good Hope".
Bartolomeu Dias
He is an important historical figure because his voyage west initiated a major cultural exchange between Europe and the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
Sailing for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain he believed that he could reach the Indies by sailing west. He left in 1492 and unknowingly discovered the Continents of North and South America.
Christopher Columbus
Religious reasons for European exploration and colonization?
Create religious utopias Convert Native Americans to Christianity Escape religious persecution
What European Country would set up colonies along the Atlantic or East Coast of what is now the United States?
England (or Great Britain)
What were 4 Economic reasons for European exploration and colonization?
Escaping debt New opportunities (such as owning your own land) New Trade Routes to Asia Search for Resources (gold and silver, silk, spices, tea, food, tobacco and timber)
The Columbian Exchange and Triangle Trade were the establishment of trade routes for the first with what three regions of the world?
Europe, The Americas (North and South), and West Africa
Slavery and the Slave Trade were only important to the Southern Colonies.
False, although the Southern Colonies more heavily invested in slavery than the other colonial regions, the New England colonies made large profits from the slave trade.
Portuguese sailor who worked for the Spanish Monarchy, who in 1519 was given credit as the first person to circumnavigate the world although he died before the journey was completed. He was also the first European Explorer to sail the Pacific Ocean which he called the Mare Pacificum, meaning Peaceful Sea.
Ferdinand Magellan
What European Country at one time controlled most of modern day Canada around the St. Lawrence River.
France
What are two lasting effects of European Colonization that can still be viewed in the United States today.
Language and Religion
What were the southern colonies Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
What were the New England Colonies?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
These Colonies were known as the "Bread Basket Colonies"?
Middle
What colonial region had a temperate climate with warm summers and cold winters?
Middle
After Europeans began to arrive in North America, what were 3 ways European exploration and colonization impacted the lives of Native Americans?
Native American Indians were displaced from their native lands. Diseases brought by Europeans caused large numbers of Native American deaths. Native Americans became involved in a series of wars involving colonial powers.
Fishing, Shipbuilding, Whaling, and Timber were what colonial regions major economic activities?
New England
Rocky soil and long cold winters inhibited and the inability to produce a lot of crops best describes what colonial region?
New England
These Colonies were founded by the Puritans to escape religious persecution in England?
New England
Name the Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
What European Country colonized what is now Brazil in South America?
Portugal
Virginia's House of Burgesses was the American Colonist's first attempt at what?
Practicing Representative Democracy
He started an important Navigational School in Portugal in 1419, and sponsored sailors to explore the Coast of Africa to find an all water route to India.
Prince Henry the Navigator
This group of religious reformers wanted to "purify" Christianity, but were persecuted in England for their beliefs.
Puritans
Which religious group is associated with New England?
Puritans
Which religious group is correctly paired with the colony its members helped establish? Middle Colonies
Quakers
Reasons for European Exploration of the Americas
Quest for trade routes to East Asia Search for Gold Desire to spread religious beliefs
William Penn is often credited with introducing what Religious idea into the colonies which is still incredibly important in our country today?
Religious Freedom
These colonies main source of income came from warm weather cash crops such as Indigo, Rice, and Tobacco.
Southern
This colonial region Economy relied heavily on slave labor and indentured servants to work on their large plantations.
Southern
This colonial region's climate consisted of hot summers and mild winters.
Southern
What European Country had the largest colonial empire in North and South America? Their colonies stretched from Northern California to the tip of South America?
Spain
What cash crop is credited with helping Jamestown (England's first permanent colony in North America) succeed and encouraged more English settlement in North America?
Tobacco
Portuguese sailor who sailed from Portugal around the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope) and reached the Southwestern tip of India in 1498.
Vasco de Gama
What economic benefit did European countries receive from their colonies?
markets and goods to support trade
Cash crops such as tobacco led the Southern Colonies to rely heavily on what economic activity?
importing of slaves