Explorers

I am an Italian explorer who was hired by the King of France to go out exploring after Columbus. I reached the Atlantic coast of what is now South Carolina.

• Cartier

• Verrazano

• Erickson

• Balboa

I believed I could read Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.  I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.

• Cabot
• de Leon
• Columbus
• Cortes

I sailed into New York Bay in 1524, but it was too windy to stay.

• Hudson

• Verrazano

• Columbus

• Champlain

Who discovered the St. Lawrence River? 

• Cartier
• Cabot
• DeSoto
• Balboa

They named a river in New York and a bay in Canada after this explorer.

• Hudson

• Cabot

• DeSoto

• Balboa

This explorer helped France get rich with fur trading.

• Balboa

• Coumbus

• DeSoto

• Cartier

I am a French explorer who built a permanent settlement along the St Lawrence River and called it Quebec.

• Champlain

• King Ferdinand

• Hudson

• Cartier

Christopher Columbus was born in this country.

• Portugal

• Spain

• Italy

• France

Columbus made all of these errors EXCEPT:

• Underestimated the size of the earth
• Didn't know the Americas existed
• believed the Earth is round
• believed he landed in Asia

All of these were names of Columbus's ships EXCEPT:

• Nina
• Santa Maria
• Pinta 
• Mayflower