Early Europeans - Chps. 4-6

In the 1500s, Europeans thought the shortest _________ to India was to travel west.

• peninsula

• land

• trade route

• colony

Hudson, Verrazano, and Columbus were three European ___________.

• colonies

• land

• explorers

• tools

Today the bridge that connects Brooklyn and Staten Island is called the _____________ Bridge.

• Verrazano - Narrows

• Champlain

• Hudson

• Manhattan

The ______________ was a trading company in the Netherlands.

• Tools Company

• New Netherlands

• Fort Orange

• Dutch West India Company

____________ was in charge of the ship the Half Moon.

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Adriaen Block

• Giovanni da Verrazano

The explorer, ___________, sailed into the New York Bay (only).

• Champlain

• Verrazano

• Columbus

The area around the St. Lawrence River was explored by ____________.

• Samuel de Champlain

• Verrazano

• Manhattan

• Columbus

Coney Island is a ____________ which is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• Ocean

• mountain

• Fort Orange

• peninsula

________ sailed up the East River into the Long Island Sound. He was the first European to realize that Long Island was an Island!

• Adriaen Block

• Columbus

• Champlain

• Verrazano

A settlement called ___________ was the beginning of our state capital, Albany.

• Manhattan

• Fort Orange

• Brooklyn

• New Netherland