European Exploration of North America

This explorer took Chief Vitachuco and the Lady of Cofitachequi prisoner. He was also the conquistador who found a member of the Navaraez expedition named Juan Ortiz.

• Hernando de Soto

• John Cabot

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Henry Hudson

This explorer was one of the first Europeans to lead an expedition to find a Northwest Passage, and he explored an area that today is Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Henry Hudson

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• John Cabot

This explorer traveled through the Southwest, came across a Zuni village, and was the first known European to see the Grand Canyon.

• John Cabot

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Hernando de Soto

• Juan Ponce de Leon

This explorer was searching for a Northwest Passage and explored the area that is today the state of New York.

• John Cabot

• Samuel de Champlain

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

Legend has it that this explorer may have searched for a Fountain of Youth; he explored the Florida Peninsula, as well as the Gulf Stream - the strong current of warm water that flows out of the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up the coast of the southeast portion of the present-day U.S.

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Christopher Columbus

This explorer set sail in 1492, a year that changed the world.

• Samuel de Champlain

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

This French explorer mapped the area he called "New France" in present-day Canada and made alliances, or agreements, with native tribes to help defend both the natives and the European settlers.

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Samuel de Champlain

• Hernando de Soto

The explorer sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Hernando de Soto

Which city is the oldest continuously inhabited city in North America settled by Europeans?

• Hispaniola

• Cuba

• St. Augustine

• Manhattan

Which of the following words means "conqueror" and describes someone who traveled to North, Central, and South America to look for wealth, conquer the native peoples, and take over the land?

• friar

• explorer

• missionary

• conquistador