Studies Weekly 23 - Part 1

The first well known exploration of North Carolina was by Giovanni da Verrazzano who was looking for a ____________ to the Pacific Ocean.

• passage

• answer

• church

• boat

Hernando de Soto was looking for ________ in southeastern United States, but never found it.

• gold

• silver

• animals

• water

Sir Walter Raleigh sent about 120 English settlers to _________ _________.

• Roanoke Island

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• North America

Roanoke Island's new colonists set up a colony in an ____________ town.

• abandoned

• old

• new

• golden

Who was the governor of Roanoke Island?

• John White

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Hernando de Soto

• Juan Pardo

What was the name of the first English child born in the Americas?

• Virginia Dare

• Eleanor Dare

• John White

• Domingo Fernandez

a contract

• charter

• colony

• provision

• monarch

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one and occupied by settlers of that country

• colony

• charter

• monarch

• letter of marque

a supply of something

• provisions

• enslaved people

• pirate

• charter

people who worked on large farms and plantations and once they were finished with their service, were given land

• indentured servant

• enslaved people

• privateer

• pirate