Quiz for:
Cultural Collisions of the Americas

Question 1

What characterized English colonial efforts compared to Spanish and French methods?

Question 2

How did the Atlantic economy tie different regions together during the colonization period?

Question 3

Which European nation first explored Florida in 1513, and who was the explorer?

Question 4

What was one of the main outcomes of the Columbian Exchange for European populations?

Question 5

What was the 'Middle Ground' in the context of French-Native relations?

Question 6

What led to the diminishing dominance of Spain in the New World by the end of the 17th century?

Question 7

What was the cultural impact of the Portuguese emphasis on sugar and slave trade in Brazil?

Question 8

Which company spearheaded the organization of the Jamestown colony?

Question 9

Which crop was crucial to the economic survival of the Jamestown colony?

Question 10

What was the key economic activity underpinning the Dutch colony of New Netherland?

Question 11

What were the Puritans in New England primarily seeking to achieve?

Question 12

How did French colonial strategy differ from that of the Spanish in the New World?

Question 13

What role did joint-stock companies play in English colonization?

Question 14

What economic and religious system underpinned Spanish colonization in America?

Question 15

What treaty divided the New World between Portugal and Spain?