European Explorers Review

How did Hernando DeSoto accomplish his goals?

• He discovered the Mississippi River

• He discovered the parts of the souteastern.

• He did not accomplish his goals of sea route to Europe.

• He explored parts of Canada.

Which explorer realized the Americas were a "New World "-not Asia. The Americas are named after this explorer.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Henry Hudson

• Amerigo Vespucci

Why did Europeans want to explore?

• To find a new King.

• To find gold, spread Christianity, and gain more land

• To spread disease

• To learn how to grow the 3 sisters

What is an example of cooperation?

• Indians fighting the settlers

• Settlers take land as their own

• Indians trading goods with settlers.

• Indians speakiing different language than settlers.

How did American Indians help English settlers?

• They taught them how to hunt beaver

• taught them to grow 3 sisters

• They showed them a sea route

• They made them slaves

Match the explorer to the area they explored on the map.

• I. Columbus

  II. Balboa

• I. Cartier

  II. DeSoto

• I. Desoto

  II. Cartier

• I. Hudson

  II. Columbus

How did the American Indians interact with the French explorers?

• the showed them how to grow crops in New York

• they made them slaves to mine silver

• They traded furs for manufactured goods.

• They fought in the french/indian war

What did Henry Hudson, Cartier, and Cabot have in common?

• They explored for Spain

• they explored for England

• they were looking for northwest sea route to Asia

• they expored for France

Who did John Cabot claim land for in the New World?

• Canada

• United States

• France

• England

Vasco Nunez Balboa was the first to

• grow the 3 sisters

• reach the Hudson River

• reach the Pacific

• Reach Asia