Explorers - Progress Mastery Assessment Study Guide II

All of the explorers met their goal of finding a shortcut to Asia?

• Yes

• No

Why was it important for the European explorers to bring a lot of supplies and food with them on their journeys to North America?

• The explorers did not have the skills needed to find supplies and food.

• The explorers did not know how long it would take them to reach land.

• They believed they would become rich by selling these goods.

• They wanted to have gifts to give the Native Americans.

Look at the chart, then answer the questions that follow. How did the After meeting the colonists, the Native Americans got many of the things they needed. How?

• They gathered them.

• They traded for them.

• They grew them.

Why was it difficult for the explorers to plan their journeys?

• They did not have any maps that could show them where to go.

• They could not build big enough ships to hold all of their supplies.

• They had to pay for their ships and supplies by themselves.

Use the map to answer the question. Henry Hudson explored the area labeled I on the map and Christopher Columbus explored the area of II. Columbus and Hudson faced obstacles. What obstacle did Hudson MOST LIKELY face that Columbus DID NOT?

• hot and rainy conditions

• lack of food supplies

• long overseas journeys

• extremely cold weather

Match the explorers and their accomplishments.

• Discovered the Mississippi River

• Columbus

• Discovered the Caribbean

• DeSoto

• First to reach the Pacific Ocean

• Hudson

• 1st to explore North America - Canada

• Balboa

• Discovered Hudson river / Hudson Bay

• Cabot

--explored the St. Lawrence River.

• Cabot

• Cartier

• Columbus

• Hudson

Match the explorers to their obstacles.

• Columbus

• • No Maps

  • Icy waters

  • Bad weather

  
  Poorly planned trip

  • He and his crew vanished on their way home to England

• Hudson

• • lack of maps

  • unskilled crew members

  • fear of the unknown

• DeSoto

• He traveled through dense jungles

  *Uncharted waters

  *Uncharted land

  *Ship had worms

  
  

• Cabot

• • Constantly fought ice on his trips

  His crew mutinied when he would not let them return home to England.

• Balboa

• • Nasty battles with Native Americans

  • He never found any gold

  
  Died of disease at the Mississippi River

• ___'s obstacles were uncharted water and land - sick sailors - lots of deaths from diseases 

  • -cold, cold winter

• Cartier

• Hudson

• Columbus

• DeSoto

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