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