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What was the most important factor that led to European

exploration of the world?

A desire to find new trade routes

for pepper and other spices.

What was one of the most important factors encouraging 

King Ferdinand’s financing of Columbus’ voyage west?

Portugal already controlled the

southern seas routes.

If Columbus did not discover the Americas, why were his

voyages important?

He began the European

colonization of the Americas.

What do we call the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and 

culture between the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, 

and Asia) and the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)?

What are the estimates for the number of Native Americans 

who died because of disease?

What two crops, introduced to Europe from the Americas,

were vital to feeding Europeans making them healthier and 

leading to a population explosion?

What animal, reintroduced to the Americas, had the biggest

positive and negative effects on these continents?

What is the most significant factor changing slavery in the 

New World?

The expansion of high labor

cash crops.

The trip transporting Africans to the Americas as slaves 

was called what?

As the number of slaves increased in the American

colonies, colonial governments began passing laws to help 

prevent slave rebellions, what were the laws called?

What is the first successful English settlement in the 

English colonies?

What crop helped Jamestown and Virginia become 

successful and wealthy?

What were the three most economically significant 

products in the Southern Colonies?

What was the term for an individual who agreed to work 

for someone for a number of years in exchange for passage 

to the Americas?

What was the primary (most important) reason for the

founding of the New England colonies?

An individual who believed that the Church of England 

was so corrupt that a person had to separate from it to 

become a true Christian was called a what?

An individual who wanted to remove from the Church of 

England its “corrupt” (Catholic) practices was called a 

what?

Which colony was set up by Roger Williams because he

disagreed with the leaders of Massachusetts concerning 

forced church attendance and church taxes?

The most prominent type of farming in New England, 

where a family grows enough food to feed themselves is 

called?

Who was the woman that Puritan leaders exiled from 

Massachusetts because she claimed she could understand 

God’s truth and the Bible without church leaders?

What are four significant products produced or exported

from New England?

What is the term for the trade that includes: A) rum and

iron from New England to Africa for slaves B) the slaves 

for sugar in the Caribbean C) Sugar for rum and iron in 

New England?

What religious group believed that all people were equal in

the sight of God and that one’s religious experiences were 

purely individual?

What colony was created by a wealthy English Quaker as 

an experiment to see if various religions could live together 

in one society?

Why did the Middle Colonies have so many skilled 

craftsmen like blacksmiths, gunsmiths, watchmakers and 

coopers?

The Middle Colonies included

religious toleration.

What colonies were the first slave society in the thirteen 

colonies?

What colony started as a place where debtors could come 

and work their debt off as indentured servants and to start a 

new life in the Americas?

What was the name the Middle Colonies were referred to as 

because it supplied much of the world with grains?

What was the term for the English policy to (legally) leave 

the colonies alone to develop on their own?

What is the term that means colonies are created for the 

mother country to use their natural resources and products 

to gain wealth?

What were the laws passed by Parliament meant to assure 

that England received some profit from the products

produced in the colonies?

Conflict in the Ohio River

Valley

What was the most important result of the French defeat at

Quebec, leading to their defeat in the French and Indian 

War?

The French lose power and

most their colonies in the Americas

Why did the British begin raising taxes on British citizens 

in both England and the 13 colonies?

To pay for the debt from the

French and Indian War.

What legal declaration prohibited colonists from moving 

west across the Appalachians and settle there?

To help pay the cost of the soldiers stationed in the colonies 

to enforce the Proclamation and other British laws, the 

British passed the Quartering Act requiring what?

Colonists supply a soldier a

bed, blanket, candle and a meal a 

day.

What was the term for a document that allowed officials to 

search homes, businesses, and ships to assure products 

were not being smuggled to avoid taxes?

What was considered the first direct and visible tax on the

colonies?

What is the term for the historical event in which a crowd 

in Boston and British soldiers clashed that resulted in the 

death for 5 Bostonians?

The law forced colonial tea

distributors out of business.

What did colonists call the laws passed by Parliament as a 

reaction to the Boston Tea Party?