1.6 Cultural Exchange Flashcards
(19 cards)
The Columbian Exchange was a result of…
Cultural Exchange (the meeting of people of different cultures)
______ _____ were not native to the Americas.
Orange Trees
Native American Farmers began to rely on ______ and ______
Horses and Cattle
European Farmers started growing ____ and ________
Corn nad Tomatoes
______ were a significant exchange to the Plains Indians because the ______ made it easier for the Plains Indians to travel in search of buffalo.
Horses
_____ and ________ dominated the colonization in South America.
Spain and Portugal
The Spanish and Portuguese argued over…
Land Claims
The ______ of ___________ was created in 1494 to preserve peace between Spain and Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
European countries competed to control territory in the ___ ____ to gain access to new supplies and materials.
New World
Spanish plantation owners entered the transatlantic slave trade because millions of Native Americans died of ______ and they couldn’t do the work on the plantations.
Smallpox
The smallpox epidemic decreased worker productivity because millions of Native Americans were killed during the _________________.
Columbian Exchange
Early European settlers faced a shortage in labor, there wasn’t enough Native Americans to do the work, so the Europeans entered the _________________.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
English settlers used _________ ___________ as a cheap source of labor.
Indentured Servants
Indentured servants were the first Africans to arrive in the English colonies of ________________.
North America
Indentured servitude began to solve the ______________ in North America.
labor shortages
Indentured servants received a _______________ to the colonies in exchange for their labor.
free passage
______________________ part of the trans-Atlantic route was the transport of enslaved Africans to the West Indians.
The Middle Passage
Because of the increase demand of cash crops in the Americas, plantation owners relied heavily on the labor of enslaved ___________ to maintain production.
Africans
The _________________ was an important part of the triangular trade system because slave labor was needed to produce the crops sold in Europe and the colonies.
slave trade
