Explorers Review

A person who works for another person without pay for a period of time to repay their passage to the New World...

• colonist

• explorer

• indentured servant

Someone who travels to unfamiliar places to find out about them...

• colony

• explorer

• trading post

An English explorer who sailed for the Netherlands in 1609. He sailed up the Hudson River looking for the Northwest Passage to Asia...

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Henry Hudson

Many explorers believed there was a quicker route to Asia. This is known as the...

• Northeast Passage

• Southeast Passage

• Northwest Passage

He was an Italian explorer who sailed for France and reached New York Bay in 1524...

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Henry Hudson

A place to trade products with others is called a ...

• trading post

• colony

• tax

He was a French explorer who built a settlement along the St. Lawrence River called Quebec...

• Henry Hudson

• Samuel de Champlain

• Giovanni da Verrazano

What was the name of the powerful trading company that established the colony of New Netherland?

• Northwest Passage

• Dutch East India Company

• Dutch West India Company

He was an Italian explorer who sailed in 1492 in search for a route to Asia but reached the Caribbean instead...

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Samuel de Champlain

A place that is ruled by another country...

• state

• city

• colony