European Exploration Assessment

Which European countries sent explorers to North America in the 1500s?

• England, France, and China

• France, Japan, and India

• Spain, France, and England

• Portugal, France, and Russia

What did the European explorers find when they arrived in North America?

• Indigenous Peoples

• completely unsettled lands

• highways and airports

• Great Wall of China

Which three reasons best explain why Europeans explored North America?

• gold, trade routes, religion

• friends, videos, gold

• religion, friends, videos

• trade routes, friends, videos

Which picture does NOT shows a navigational tool explorers might have used?

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Which primary source shows land from the time of the European explorers?

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What are three ways the European explorers changed North America?

• They brought airplanes; they invented the internet; they held elections.

• They bought cars and computers; they traded with the Indigenous people; they built highways.

• They brought many schools and libraries; they made movies; they planted oranges.

• They brought many diseases to the Indigenous people; they traded with the Indigenous people; they brought conflict and fighting.

What are two reasons that France sent explorers to the New World?

• gold and fur trading

• fur trading and making new friends

• finding new trade routes and gold

• gold and making new friends

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, but he explored for which country?

• France

• England

• Portugal

• Spain

English explorers founded the first permanent English settlement in which place?

• Canada

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Florida

• New Mexico

On the map, what does number one show?

• North America

• Atlantic Ocean

• Europe