US History Chapter 2

The first land that Columbus reached was an island in the Caribbean that he named...?

• Land

• The West Indies

• The Bahamas

• San Salvador

Columbus mapped the coast of which of the following?

• China

• Japan

• North America

• Central America

The ___________ helped make long journeys possible because it helped sailors chart new maps.

The word Pacífico means _______ in Spanish

• Crazy

• Wavy

• Pacific

• Rough

Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas under the flag of _______, thanks to Queen Isabella dedicating funds for his voyages.

• Mexico

• Spain

• England

• France

The fact that South America was a separate continent was discovered by __________.

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

Hernán Cortés destroyed the powerful empire of the

• Aztec

• Inca

• Olmec

• Maya

What was Juan Ponce de León looking for but never found?

• Northwest Passage

• Gold

• Spices

• Fountain of Youth

The Protestant Reformation was

• A new government

• A study of scientific ideas

• An idea of the Catholic Church

• A religious movement

True or False; In 1517, Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation by rejecting many teachings of the Catholic Church.

• True

• False