Social Studies Alive - Ch 5

Many explorers sought out the __________, or a route across the northern part of North America.

• artifact
• Northwest Passage
• East Indies
• colony

A community ruled by another country is called a(n) 

• neighborhood
• conquistador
• Northwest Passage
• colony

Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Burma, and Malaysia, is called the ________________.

• conquistador
• East Indies
• colony
• explorer

A _______________ is a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500's.

• nobleman
• conquistador
• warrior
• trapper

Explorers hoped to find a Northwest Passage that would lead them...

• into the interior where they could find gold
• through North America to Asia 2*
• down the entire length of the Mississippi River 3 (optional)
• across the ice of the North Pole 4 (optional)

Which river did La Salle explore?

• Colorado

• Hudson

• Mississippi

• Rio Grande

Which explorer was not sponsored by Spain

• Christopher Columbus

• Poce DeLeon

• John Cabot

• Hernan Cortes

Jacques Cartier explored what river that now serves as a border between Canada and the United States of America?

• Rio Grande

• Mississippi

• Ohio

• St. Lawrence

In which year did Christopher Columbus first set sail for the New World?

• 1506

• 1610

• 1492

• 1457

What part of the New World did La Salle claim for France?

• the entire Mississippi Valley

• Florida and the islands around it

• a colony established on the Texan coast

• the land that surrounds the Gulf of Mexico