European Explorers

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

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

He was sponsored by France and discovered the St. Lawrence River.

• Cabot
• Columbus
• Cartier

He discovered Hudson Bay.

• Hudson
• Cartier
• Cabot
• Magellon

He founded Canada for England.

• Henry Hudson
• Jacques Cartier
• John Cabot
• Newfoundland

He discovered the Pacific Ocean!

• Columbus
• Cabot
• de Soto
• Balboa

Sailed the ocean blue in 1492!

• Hudson
• Balboa
• Columbus

All explorers wanted this so that they could get rich!  I was not always shiny, but it was always used to make money!

• Gold
• God
• Glory