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WorksheetsHuman Exploration
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
Where did Europeans go before they discovered North and South America?
Central America
Asia
Africa
Iceland
Check the things that Europeans brought back from the East?
animals
spices
cloth
medicine
Columbus wanted to find...
gold and silver.
America.
new medicine.
a shorter route to the east.
Where did Columbus land?
North America
Central America
South America
Africa
Which European country settled in the New World first?
Portugal
Spain
England
France
Where did the Portuguese settle in the New World?
North America
Asia
South America
Africa
What were the Spanish looking for in the New World?
gold and silver.
America.
new medicine.
a shorter route to the east.
In 1519, Cortes attacked which Empire?
Incan
Aztec
Mexican
British
In 1533, Pizarro attacked the Incas who were from ...
Mexico
America
Peru
Guatemala
New Spain was in ...
North, South, and Central America
Central and South America only
South America only
North America only
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
Johannesburg
South Carolina
King James Village
True or False:
The English came after the Spanish.
True
False
The English came to the New World looking for ...
gold and silver
a shorter route to the east
trade and religious freedom
new friends
True or False:
Even though they both came in the 1600s, the French had more territory than the English.
True
False
The French made friends with the Native Americans so they could learn to ...
hunt and trade furs
find gold and silver
find a shorter route to the east
practice their religion freely
Choose all that are correct.
Native Americans suffered because the European settlers ...
brought new diseases
ate all of their corn
wanted more and more land
The big farms especially found in the south are called ...
cornations
cotton gins
plantations
crop rotations
The farmers wanted such big farms to be able to ...
sell or trade the extra crops
grow fat from eating too much
search for gold and silver
grow many different crops
Choose two.
What are two things that Europeans brought that grew well in the Americas?
coffee
tea
sugarcane
corn
Choose all that are true.
Slaves were used as workers because ...
plantations were big
plantation owners didn't want to pay salaries
slaves could be bought like property
When did the first enslaved people come from Africa?
1502
1602
1702
1802
What ended slavery?
the Declaration of Independence, 1776
the Emancipation Proclamation, 1865
the Treaty of Paris, 1763
