WorksheetsHS 5th Grade Chapter 2: Explorers
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 12mins
Match the following
a group of traders who buy and sell goods
caravans
a tool used to to help sailors know which direction they were traveling
compass
a tool that help sailors know where they were on the ocean
quadrant
Why could the Arabs explored? (a) (b) (c)
Why did the Arabs choose not to explore?
they were tired of sailing
they didn't have the right tools
they were already successful in trading
we don't know
Match the following
These people wanted to change the Church of England
Puritans
These people started their own churches
Separatists
People who worked to pay for their journey to North America
indentured servants
This person realized that American Indians were humans with souls.
the priests
the pope
John Winthrop
Christopher Columbus
The Chinese could have explored by didn't. Why could they have explored?
Match the following.
Who was the first person to sail from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
An American Indian who taught the Plymouth colonists how to grow food.
Squanto
Who made the colonists work at Jamestown?
John Smith
Who wanted their community to be a "model of Christian love"?
John Winthrop
Who explored the coast of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
Who arrived in the Americas in 1492?
Peter Stuyvesant
Christopher Columbus
John Winthrop
Powhatan
Who was the governor of New Netherland?
John Smith
Peter Stuyvesant
Christopher Columbus
John Winthrop
Who wrote a book about the treatment of American Indians?
Bartolomeu Dias
Powhatan
Bartolome de Las Casas
Squanto
Why did the English want to establish new colonies in America?
Which colony struggled because the colonists would not work?
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth
New England
In which colony did Squanto teach the Pilgrims how to grow food?
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth
New England
The Mayas could have explored but chose not to. Why did they choose not to explore?
we don't know
