Explorers

What explorer's ship was the first to sail around the world?

• LaSalle

• DeSoto

• Magellan

• Polo

What ocean did Megellan name?

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Arctic

• Indian

What did DeSoto accomplish?

• He gathered information about the land.

• He discovered the Mississippi River.

• He claimed land in the Southeastern U.S.

• All of the above.

Discovered the Americas, he reached the new world in 1492

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Jacques Cartier

He sailed up the St. Lawerence River and explored Canada

• Giovanni de Verrazano

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

Explored the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Jacques Cartier

A waterway through North America that explorers thought would connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

• Columbian Exchange

• Expedition

• Northwest Passage

The exchange of goods, plants, animals, ideas that took place between Europeans and Native Americans.

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Expedition

Who founded a navigation school in Portugal?

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Prince Henry

1st European to discover North America

• Columbus

• Vespucci

• Ericson

• La Salle