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Human Exploration

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did Europeans go before they discovered North and South America?

a)

Central America

b)

Asia

c)

Africa

d)

Iceland

2.

Check the things that Europeans brought back from the East?

a)

animals

b)

spices

c)

cloth

d)

medicine

3.

Columbus wanted to find...

a)

gold and silver.

b)

America.

c)

new medicine.

d)

a shorter route to the east.

4.

Where did Columbus land?

a)

North America

b)

Central America

c)

South America

d)

Africa

5.

Which European country settled in the New World first?

a)

Portugal

b)

Spain

c)

England

d)

France

6.

Where did the Portuguese settle in the New World?

a)

North America

b)

Asia

c)

South America

d)

Africa

7.

What were the Spanish looking for in the New World?

a)

gold and silver.

b)

America.

c)

new medicine.

d)

a shorter route to the east.

8.

In 1519, Cortes attacked which Empire?

a)

Incan

b)

Aztec

c)

Mexican

d)

British

9.

In 1533, Pizarro attacked the Incas who were from ...

a)

Mexico

b)

America

c)

Peru

d)

Guatemala

10.

New Spain was in ...

a)

North, South, and Central America

b)

Central and South America only

c)

South America only

d)

North America only

11.

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Johannesburg

c)

South Carolina

d)

King James Village

12.

True or False:

The English came after the Spanish.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The English came to the New World looking for ...

a)

gold and silver

b)

a shorter route to the east

c)

trade and religious freedom

d)

new friends

14.

True or False:

Even though they both came in the 1600s, the French had more territory than the English.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The French made friends with the Native Americans so they could learn to ...

a)

hunt and trade furs

b)

find gold and silver

c)

find a shorter route to the east

d)

practice their religion freely

16.

Choose all that are correct.

Native Americans suffered because the European settlers ...

a)

brought new diseases

b)

ate all of their corn

c)

wanted more and more land

17.

The big farms especially found in the south are called ...

a)

cornations

b)

cotton gins

c)

plantations

d)

crop rotations

18.

The farmers wanted such big farms to be able to ...

a)

sell or trade the extra crops

b)

grow fat from eating too much

c)

search for gold and silver

d)

grow many different crops

19.

Choose two.

What are two things that Europeans brought that grew well in the Americas?

a)

coffee

b)

tea

c)

sugarcane

d)

corn

20.

Choose all that are true.

Slaves were used as workers because ...

a)

plantations were big

b)

plantation owners didn't want to pay salaries

c)

slaves could be bought like property

21.

When did the first enslaved people come from Africa?

a)

1502

b)

1602

c)

1702

d)

1802

22.

What ended slavery?

a)

the Declaration of Independence, 1776

b)

the Emancipation Proclamation, 1865

c)

the Treaty of Paris, 1763