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SS - Explorers
TEST 10/20 - European Explorers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus home country | Italy |
| Christopher Columbus sponsor country | Spain |
| Christopher Columbus reason for exploration | Looking for a faster route to Asia |
| Christopher Columbus obstacles to exploration (4 obstacles) | 1. Scared crew 2. Unknown land 3. No maps 4. Native Americans |
| Christopher Columbus accomplishment of exploration | Finding America for Europe |
| Christopher Columbus three ships | 1. Santa Maria 2. Nina 3. Pinta |
| Christopher Columbus sailed in the year ______ | 1492 |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa home country | Spain |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa sponsor country | Spain |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa reason for exploration | Looking for GOLD |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa obstacles to exploration (2 obstacles) | 1. Crossing jungles 2. Mountains of Panama |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa accomplishment of exploration | First European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the East |
| Juan Ponce de Leon home country | Spain |
| Juan Ponce de Leon sponsor country | Spain |
| Juan Ponce de Leon reasons for exploration (2 reasons) | 1. Looked for riches 2. Looked for the "fountain of youth" |
| Juan Ponce de Leon obstacles to exploration (1 obstacles) | Fighting Native Americans |
| Juan Ponce de Leon accomplishments of exploration (2 accomplishments) | 1. First European in Florida 2. Discovered the Gulf Stream |
| Juan Ponce de Leon claimed this region as a territory of Spain | Florida |
| John Cabot home country | Italy |
| John Cabot sponsor country | England |
| John Cabot reason for exploration | Looking for a faster route to Asia |
| John Cabot obstacles to exploration (2 obstacles) | 1. Didn't have maps 2. Didn't know what he would find |
| John Cabot accomplishment of exploration | Explored the eastern coast of Canada |
| Jacques Cartier home country | France |
| Jacques Cartier sponsor country | France |
| Jacques Cartier reasons for exploration (2 reasons) | 1. Looking for Northwest Passage 2. GOLD |
| Jacques Cartier obstacles to exploration (3 obstacles) | 1. Very cold winter 2. No sailing route/map 3. Disease |
| Jacques Cartier accomplishments of exploration (2 accomplishments) | 1. Explored eastern Canada 2. St. Lawrence River |
| Henry Hudson home country | England |
| Henry Hudson sponsor country | Netherlands |
| Henry Hudson reason for exploration | Looking for Northwest Passage |
| Henry Hudson obstacles to exploration (3 obstacles) | 1. No route 2. Cold weather 3. Crew mutant in Hudson Bay |
| Henry Hudson accomplishments of exploration (2 accomplishments) | 1. Found Hudson River 2. Found Hudson Bay |
| French trading posts are where the French traded and became friends with __________ _____________ | Native Americans |
| Spanish ______________ killed many Native Americans | Conquistadors |
| _________ and __________ spread Christianity | French and Spanish |
| Many Native Americans died from __________ and __________ | Fighting and disease |
| Native Americans showed Europeans how to grow these FOUR crops | Tobacco, corn, pumpkin, and beans |
| Powhatan and people of _______ had many conflicts over the land in Virginia | Jamestown |
| Powhatan and people of Jamestown made peace for a short time when Pocahontas married ____________ ___________ | John Rolfe |
| Wampanoag Indians and the people of _________ shared a feast, which we now celebrate with Thanksgiving | Plymouth |
| John Rolfe taught the people of Jamestown how to grow the cash crop, _____________ | Tobacco |
| ____________ __________'s ship was stuck in ice in Hudson Bay for a whole winter | Henry Hudson |
| The ____________ succeeded in growing crops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so many more of them left England and moved there. | Puritans |
| We call this place ____ __________ because so many people from England moved there | New England |
| The people of the "Lost Colony of ___________" did not adapt to their colony in North Carolina. They disappeared and we don't know what happened to them! | Roanoke |
| Pilgrims learned to grow crops, hunt, and fish from ____________, a Wampanoag Indian. | Squanto |
| Almost half of the people in Jamestown died from _____________ or ___________ | Disease or starvation |
| About half o the pilgrims died during their first winter in Plymouth because it was too cold to grow crops and they didn't know how to ______. | Hunt |
| Trading back and forth of knowledge and items between Europe and the New World | Columbian Exchange |
| Short cut to cut through North America to get to Asia - we now know this doesn't exist!` | Northwest Passage |
| People who SEPARATED from the Church of England and set up their own churches | Separatists |
| These people sailed to American on the Mayflower | Pilgrims |
| Pilgrims set up a town in Massachusetts called __________ | Plymouth |
| Pilgrims had the first written plan for government in North America called the ____________ ______________ | Mayflower Compact |
| Group of people from the Church of England who wanted their religion to be more PURE. | Puritans |
| The Puritans called their settlement in Massachusetts the _________________ ________ colony | Massachusetts Bay |
| Land owned by France was ______ ___________ | New France |
| New France was named Louisiana for ______ _______ ____ | King Louis XIV |
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