Explorers Voc (Part 2)

the sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Northwestern America, often looked for by the early explorers

• The Indies

• Northwest Passage

• North America

• Henry Hudson

people who came from or live in Europe

• Native Americans

• Jacques Cartier

• The Indies

• Europeans

a Spanish explorer and conquistador who discovered the southeastern part of North America; the first European to discover the Mississippi River

• Jacques Cartier

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Hernando de Soto

• Christopher Columbus

was an English explorer who discovered the area between Canada and the northeastern tip of North America

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando de Soto

Spanish adventurer who discovered the Pacific Ocean

• Hernando de Soto

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot

India, Japan, China and the surrounding islands

• the Indies

• North American

• Northwest Passage

• Henry Hudson

the land Native Americans lived in when settlers found it

• Northwest Passage

• the Indies

• Europeans

• North America

a member of any of the first groups of people to live in North America

• John Cabot

• The Indies

• Native Americans

• European

an Italian explorer who was trying to sail to Asia but instead he discovered the Bahamas

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando de Soto

• Henry Hudson

a French explorer who made three expeditions to Canada and gave the land its name

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• John Cabot