Exam 18: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies

Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.1 and describe what European countries dominated the Americas. What were the cash crops grown in the Americas, and where were they grown? What was their economic importance to Europe? Did Europe develop these cash crops, or were they borrowed through a process of diffusion?

Identify the following term(s). -castas

The highest-ranking Spanish officials in the colonies were:

The French settlements in America resembled Spanish and Portuguese colonies more than those of England in that they wanted to

The Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535, with its capital in Mexico City, encompassed

Within fifteen years of its settlement, the colony at Jamestown lost ____ percent of its population:

Identify the following term(s). -Puritans

Identify the following term(s). -Iroquois Confederacy

Identify the following term(s). -smallpox

How were the European languages and cultures primarily transmitted to indigenous populations?

Migrants to British colonies in the Americas who paid for passage by agreeing to work for a set term ranging from four to seven years were called:

One of the major reasons for the growth of the world population after 1700 was

The term Columbian Exchange refers to _______________.

Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.1 and identify the regions that produced precious metals. What types of metals were mined? What was the global impact of this metal mining?

Spanish authorities used the term mestizo to refer to someone

Why did Brazil develop more slowly than other areas of Latin America?

In Colonial Spanish America, the term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World was

What effect did European colonization of the Americas have on the environment and peoples of the Americas?

Compare and contrast the different colonial regions established in British North America. In what ways were they similar or different?

Though it began as a proprietary colony and as a refuge for Quakers, this colony was the first to have sole right to form a government as given by Britain.