Early Explorers

This explorer's ships would intercept Spanish ships and rob them. The Queen of England knighted him for his accomplishments (1577)

• Henry Hudson
• Sir Francis Drake
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• John Cabot
  

This explorer is celebrated as having ‘discovered’ America, even though he thought he was in the Indies; he was the first to try to sail west to reach the east.

• Christopher Columbus
  
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Sir Francis Ddrake
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
  

This French fur trader, mapper, and explorer came to “New France” and established a fort and was a friend to the natives.

• Samuel de Champlain 
• Henry Husdon
• Jacques Cartier
  
• Ferdinand Magellan 

This explorer discovered (and explored) the St. Lawrence River. He claimed the area for France and named it New France. It is now known as Canada.

• Samuel de  Champlain
• Henry Hudson
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Jacques Cartier

Spanish nobleman and conquistador is credited with discovering Florida.

• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Christopher Columbus
• Sir Francis Drake
• Amerigo Vespucci

Europeans were eager to trade with Asia because they wanted 

• silk, spices, and gold
• wood, sea shells, and silver
• clocks, mirrors, and beads
• vegetables, spices, and fruit

I crossed the Isthmus of Panama and found the Pacific Ocean as I climbed over a mountaintop.

• Balboa
• Vespucci
• Magellan
• Cabot

Christopher Columbus thought he had reached India, but he had really landed in______.

• Florida
• Canada
• the Bahamas
• Hudson Bay

This explorer was looking for a way to go west from Europe to find Asia.  Instead he discovered a famous river and explored the area around NYC.  Who is it?

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson

To go all the way around the Earth by ship or plane is to...

• circumnavigate
• equate
• latitudinate
• circulate