European Exploration of the Americas

Europeans had a desire to spread their religion. Which religion did most Europeans practice?

• Christianity
• Judaism
• Hinduism
• Islam

The first people to reach North America were the:

• French
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Vikings

Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean in 1492 and claimed the land for Spain. Where did he think he had landed?

• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia

Which explorer are the Americas named after?

• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Leif Eriksson

Spanish explorers were called:

• missionaries
• vikings
• tyrants
• conquistadors

French explorer who claimed Canada for France

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Jacques Cartier
• Henry Hudson
• Christopher Columbus

The Columbian Exchange created a strict class system within society.

• True
• False

Englishman who claimed the Hudson Bay area (present day New York) for England.

• Hernan Cortes
• Robert LaSalle
• Juan Ponce de Leon
• Henry Hudson

Disease wiped out over _______% of the Native American population.

• 40
• 50
• 75
• 90

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas to be sold into slavery.

• the Fountain of Youth
• the Middle Passage
• Cultural Diffusion
• Northwest Passage