3rd Grade Social Studies - Communities and their Histories

A person who travels to a new place to learn about it is called a(n) ____________________________.

• gatherer

• explorer

• president

_____________________ mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

• Hernando de Soto

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Ponce de Leon

Who was a Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain?

• Miguel Silvestre

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernando de Soto

• Jacque Cartier

This Spanish explorer discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth."

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Álvaro Soler

• Hernando de Soto

• Samuel de Champlain

Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?

• Nico Yannessa

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

This man founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the Americas.

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles

Who claimed Canada for England in 1497?

• Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles

• Henry Hudson

• Pocahontas

• John Cabot

________________ was an English navigator who discovered the Hudson River.

• Samuel de Champlain

• John Rolfe

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

Spain sent ____________________ to crush the hugenots in 1565. He established the fort of St. Augustine and attacked.

• Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles

• Hernando de Soto

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Carlos Vives

A group of ships sailing together are called a(n) ___________________.

• fortification

• exporer

• fleet

• group