Key Content Review: The New World

Question 1

Why did Europeans ship goods to Africa as part of triangular trade?

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to trade for enslaved Africans

Question 2

Which of the following most precisely names the earliest culture to develop in North America?

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the Clovis

Question 3

Read the excerpt from the writings of Olaudah Equiano, an African person who was shipped to the Americas on a slave ship.The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.What conclusion can be drawn about slave ships from this description?

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Passengers suffered greatly during their journey to the Americas.

Question 4

What area of North America did Giovanni da Verrazzano explore?

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the land around present-day New York

Question 5

In which of the following present-day areas was Paleo-Indian Folsom culture found?

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the Great Plains

Question 6

What did the Spanish colonists build to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity?

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missions

Question 7

The Virginia Company wanted to find a route to

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the Pacific Ocean.

Question 8

The French sent explorers to North America in the early 1500s and

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explored present-day New York.

Question 9

How did Spain try to establish its empire in the Americas?

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It sent conquistadors to conquer existing empires.

Key Content Review: The New World Answers

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