Quizizz 3 - America - Raleigh

A Venetian captain who first planted the English flag on American soil.

• Captain Columbus

• John Cabot

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

Italian explorer & navigator; the New World was named after him

• Amerigo Vespucci

• America Ferrera

• America Young

• America Sierra

Look at the map.  Which explorer took this route?

• Eriksson
• LaSalle
• Magellan
• Columbus

Which explorer discovered and named Florida?

• Christopher Columbus
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• John Cabot

Who was a conquistador who sailed to Mexico with many soldiers?

• Hernando Cortes
• Hernando Desoto
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan

_________ was the first Spanish settlement in the United States.

• Pensacola

• St. Augustine

• Orlando

• Key West

In the 16 & 17th centuries - Huguenots were

• partisans of Catherine de Medici
• colonists in France's North American colonies
• Indian traders
• French Protestants

To rule absolutely within a territory is called sovereignty?

• True

• False

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas

• isthmus

• archipelago

• dialect

• antilles

Who found trade routes to India around the Cape of Good Hope?

• Bartholomew Dias
• Vasco de Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• John Cabot