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SS Explorers Darcy4

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a type of store set up to trade with Native Americans?

a)

voyage

b)

trading post

c)

colony

d)

Columbian Exchange

2.

What were 2 items that Europeans introduced to the Native Americans?

a)

corn and turkey

b)

turkey and cattle

c)

tomatoes and potatoes

d)

cattle and wheat

3.

Which two explorers traveled for France and explored Canada along the St. Lawrence River?

a)

Giovanni da Verrazano and Jacques Cartier

b)

Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain

c)

Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain

d)

Henry Hudson and Christopher Columbus

4.

What is money earned by a business after it pays its expenses?

a)

profit

b)

explorer

c)

colony

d)

trading post

5.

Which explorer traveled for France in 1524?

a)

Henry Hudson

b)

Giovanni da Verrazano

c)

Jacques Cartier

d)

Samuel de Champlain

6.

Who is a person who travels to new or unfamiliar places?

a)

profit

b)

Northwest Passage

c)

voyage

d)

explorer

7.

Which explorer traveled for the Dutch on a ship called the Half Moon?

a)

Henry Hudson

b)

Jacques Cartier

c)

Samuel de Champlain

d)

Giovanni da Verrazano

8.

What is a settlement far from the country that rules it?

a)

explorer

b)

trading post

c)

colony

d)

profit

9.

What was a water route to Asia through North America?

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Northwest Passage

c)

explorer

d)

voyage

10.

What did people do at trading posts?

a)

They exchanged European goods for furs.

b)

They searched for riches.

c)

They explored a water route to Asia.

d)

They cut down trees.

11.

What were two items that Native Americans introduced to the Europeans?

a)

tomatoes and wheat

b)

cattle and apples

c)

turkey and cattle

d)

corn and turkey

12.

Which explorer traveled for France in 1608-09 and explored a lake that now has his name?

a)

Samuel de Champlain

b)

Henry Hudson

c)

Giovanni da Verrazano

d)

Jacques Cartier

13.

What was a great trade between Europe and the Americas?

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

trading post

c)

Columbian Exhange

d)

profit

14.

What is a long journey?

a)

voyage

b)

colony

c)

explorer

d)

profit

15.

Which explorer's travels are shown by the green line/arrow?

a)

Giovanni da Verrazano

b)

Jacques Cartier

c)

Henry Hudson

d)

Samuel de Champlain

16.

Which explorer traveled in 1608-09? Which river did he explore?

a)

Cartier, Hudson River

b)

Champlain, St. Lawrence River

c)

Hudson, St. Lawrence River

d)

Verrazano, Hudson River