Name: _______________________________
USVA History
Chapter 1.5 and 2.1 Study Guide
European Colonization
1. A distant settlement established and controlled by a parent country is called a _________.
2. European colonization resulted in the redistribution of the world’s population as millions
of people from the continents of ____________________ and __________________
moved to the new World (either voluntarily or involuntarily).
3. The trading of people, plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean between
Europe and the Americas was known as the ____________________________.
4. ________________, _________________, and __________________ were the major
motives for Spanish exploration and colonization of the New World.
5. The ____________________________ was the name of the actual journey of African
slaves from the western coast of Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean.
6. American Indians often fell victim to _____________________ carried from Europe to
the New World.
7. Economic gain and profit was the goal of the first permanent English settlement at
_________________________, in Virginia.
8. The New England settlements of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were founded
primarily to allow settlers to practice their ______________________ freely.