WorksheetsEuropean Explorers
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 15mins
I was searching for the Fountain of Youth, and though I never found it, I was the first to step foot on what is today U.S.A. soil.
de Soto
Erikson
Columbus
de Leon
What was the main accomplishment of exploration?
The discovery of new lands
Riches and valuable gold
Natural resources like large forest and fish
Learning to grow crops from Native Americans
I started a school for navigators, and people who wanted to go out exploring.
Columbus
Prince Henry
Polo
Magellan
Christopher Columbus thought he had reached India, but he had really landed in______.
Florida
Canada
the Bahamas
Hudson Bay
Which European country sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyages?
England
Mexico
France
Spain
This explorer was looking for a way to go west from Europe to find Asia. Instead he discovered a famous river and explored the area around NYC. Who is it?
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Henry Hudson
Vasco Balboa
Who explored much of the southeastern United States and was the first to see the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Coronado
Cabeza da Vaca
Juan Ponce de Leon
Amerigo Vespucci
He and his ships were the first to sail around the world
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortes
Which is true about Henry Hudson?
crew mutinied and threw him off the boat
traded corn with the native people
led the way for England's future colonization of North America
explored much of the Southeast USA
