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Exam Review Sheet: Due Friday (Will boost your exam grade!)

1. What is the
Columbian Exchange?
2. How did the Columbian Exchange impact the Americas? How did it Impact
Europe? West Africa?

3. Which of the following natural resources would attract settlers to certain

areas of the Americas? Pick 3.
a. Plenty of animals to hunt
b. Fresh water for drinking
c. Mountains to build farms on
d. Dry, cold climate for growing crops
e. Trees to use for building houses and ships
4. Early French colonists mainly came to America to
a. Trade with Native Americans for furs
b. Farm tobacco
c. Farm cotton
d. Mine for gold and silver
5. Early British colonists mainly came to America to
a. Trade with Native Americans for furs
b. Farm tobacco
c. Farm cotton
d. Mine for gold and silver

6. Early Spanish colonists mainly came to America to

a. Trade with Native Americans for furs
b. Farm tobacco
c. Farm cotton
d. Mine for gold and silver
7. What did the Encomienda System do to Native Americans?

8. Describe the Triangular Trade and Middle Passage.

9. How does the growth of tobacco farming in the European colonies impact
Western Africa?
a. As more tobacco is imported into Western Africa, more people become
addicted to it
b. As more tobacco is grown in the colonies, Native American slavery
becomes more popular
c. As more tobacco is grown in the colonies, more slaves are taken from
Africa to labor in the fields
d. As more tobacco is grown in the colonies, the Europeans develop new
technologies that replace African slave labor