Chapter 2 Test

Why did the Spanish crown continue to finance the Florida colony even after the explorers failed to find a passage to Asia?

b. The colony had become an important base for missionaries

Which of the following most drove the governments of European nation states in colonizing the Americas?

b. competition with each other

The 1657 petition known as the Flushing Remonstrance concerned which of the following?

b. freedom of religion

Which New World crop soon became a dietary staple for Europeans?

b. potatoes

The law that caused the greatest change to the legal status of Africans in North America involved which of the following?

b. the declaration of slavery as a hereditary condition

Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?

b. the law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother

The Western European curiosity that led to the Colombian Exchange originated with which explorer's travels?

c. Marco Polo

Why did European colonists choose to replace the slave labor of native peoples with that of West Africans?

c. Native Americans were not able to resist diseases carried by Europeans.

The Flushing Remonstrance was a petition for freedom of religion written by people from what religion?

c. Quakers

Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?

c. The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture

Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World?

c. potatoes

How were the Quakers different from other Protestant groups?

a. They were pacifists who were against fighting wars

The Colombian Exchange between Western Europe and the native people of the New World thrived mainly due to which of the following?

a. established Native American trade routes

Which of the following was most helpful to the success of the Colombian Exchange in the New World?

a. established Native American trade routes

On which modern-day location did Christopher Columbus's fleet first land in the New World?

a. the Bahamas

What happened in the late 1600s that led to changes in the legal status of Africans in the United States?

b. Other forms of inexpensive labor were becoming scarce.

After explorers were unable to find a passage to Asia through Florida, what led the Spanish crown to continue financing the Florida colony?

c. the work of the Franciscan missionaries with the native peoples

Which crop did the Europeans bring to the New World?

c. wheat