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Early Explorers

Authored by Julia Duke

History

5th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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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

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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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 

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Spanish nobleman and conquistador is credited with discovering Florida.

Juan Ponce de Leon
Christopher Columbus
Sir Francis Drake
Amerigo Vespucci

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Balboa
Vespucci
Magellan
Cabot

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