European Expansion Quiz 2 Review
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- Q1Why were colonies necessary for mercantilism to work?Colonies provided natural resources.Colonies provided manufactured goods.Colonies were NOT necessary for mercantilism to workColonies provided a labor force.30s
- Q2The goal of mercantilism is to ______ more than you _____.Import/exportTrade/buyBuy/sellExport/import30s
- Q3____ means to buy goods from another countryexportcapitalismimportmercantilism30s
- Q4A business person who trades is called a ____indentured servantcolonial powermerchant30s
- Q5____ means to sell goods to another countryexportimport30s
- Q6a person who agrees to work as a slave for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the Americas is a ____merchantcolonistindentured servantcolonial power30s
- Q7____ is an economic system based on private ownership of businesses and competition for profitbalance of tradecapitalismmercantilism30s
- Q8the idea that a country becomes more wealthy and powerful through colonies and trade is called ____balance of tradeexportmercantilismcapitalism30s
- Q9the country that owns a colony is called the ____colonial powercolonizecolonistcolony30s
- Q10items grown on plantations to make a profit are called ____cash crops30s
- Q11A colony in which large areas of land were farmed with cash crops that were traded across the globe is calledtrading postplantation colonysettler colony30s
- Q12What was a settler colony?Outpost for trading purposesLarge estate that produced cash cropsPermanent settlement that is governed by the home country30s
- Q13What did the colonial power do with the natural resources they got from their colonies?made manufactured goods that they sold all over the worldthey did nothingsold the natural resources30s
- Q14This group of Europeans had a good relationship with Native Americans because they traded together for fur and learned Native American languages.PortugueseFrenchEnglishSpanish30s
- Q15This group of Europeans had a poor relationship with Native Americans because they forced them to work as slave labor on their plantations and forced them to convert to Christianity.FrenchEnglishDutchSpanish30s