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6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1535 - sailed up St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario hoping it would lead to Pacific; Found a mountain peak- named Mont-Royal
(Montreal)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
Juan Ponce de Leon (Spain)
Amerigo Vespucci (Spain)
Jacques Cartier (French)
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1502 sailed along coast of South America; discovered south America was a continent; named America after him.
Jacques Cartier (French)
Hernando De Soto (Spain)
Amerigo Vespucci (Spain)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Canoed down Mississippi (MI) River; Looking for Northwest Passage ; Realized it flowed into Gulf not Pacific
Pedro Alvares Cabral (Portugal)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spain)
Louis Joliet (fur trader) & Jacques Marquette (Priest)
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (Spain)
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1541 - searched for the "seven cities of gold"; Crossed the Mississippi River; went as far west as Oklahoma.
Juan Ponce de Leon (Spain)
Ferdinand Magellan (Spain)
Hernando De Soto (Spain)
Amerigo Vespucci (Spain)
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1682 - followed MI River to Gulf; Claimed land for France; Named it Louisiana in honor of Louis XIV
Henry Hudson (Dutch hired, English)
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
Robert Cavelier de La Salle (France)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spain)
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1519 - conquistador landed on east coast of Mexico; 1521 - conquered the Aztec empire
Juan de Oñate (Spain)
Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
Hernan Cortes (Spain)
Francisco Pizarro (Spain)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
1487 - sailed around southern most point of Africa; King John called point Cape of good hope.
Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spain)
Juan Ponce de Leon (Spain)
Jacques Cartier (French)
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