Study Guide: Facts and Information—

 Study Guide: Facts and Information—Introduction and Part IName: What geographic regions are included in the Americas?What geographic regions are included in the Atlantic World?According to historians, what are the origins of anti-black racism in the world today?Use information from your reading to fill in the chart below.Imperial PowerLocations of ColoniesMajor Sources of Wealth for ColonizersSpainPortugalNetherlandsEnglandFrance What was monocrop agriculture? Why did European plantation owners increasingly turn to monocrop agriculture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?What was the purpose of the plantation system? List three characteristics of the plantation system.The Indigenous population of the Americas decreased from ________________ to _________________ between 1500 and 1600. List three of the leading causes of the Indigenous population’s decrease.List two reasons that plantation owners began to enslave Africans to labor on plantations in the Americas.How did European colonizers attempt to justify the enslavement of Africans?How did colonial authorities limit Africans’ ability to escape their status as an enslaved person?Choose one primary source quotation from this part of the reading. Write two to three sentences explaining what you think this quotation means and what it reveals about its historical context. ................
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