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Unit 9
European Exploration of North America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This explorer took Chief Vitachuco and the Lady of Cofitachequi prisoner. He was also the conquistador who found a member of the Narvaez expedition named Juan Ortiz. | Hernando de Soto |
| This explorer was one of the first Europeans to lead an expedition to find a Northwest Passage, and he explored an area that today is Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. | Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
| This explorer traveled through the Southwest, came across a Zuni village, and was the first known European to see the Grand Canyon.. | John Cabot |
| This explorer was searching for a Northwest Passage and explored the area that is today the state of New York. He also wrote about his friendly contact with native people as he traveled upstream by river in search of the Northwest Passage. | Henry Hudson |
| Legend has it that this explorer may have searched for a Fountain of Youth; he explored the Florida peninsula, as well as the Gulf Stream--the strong current of warm water that flows out of the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up southeast US | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| This explorer set sail in 1492, a year that changed the world. He was sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. | Christopher Colombus |
| This French explorer mapped the area he called "New France" in present-day Canada and made alliances, or agreements, with native tribes to help defend both the natives and the European settlers. | Samuel de Champlain |
| Which city is the oldest continuously inhabited city in North America settled by Europeans? | St. Augustine |
| Which word means "conqueror" and describes someone who traveled to North, Central, and South America to look for wealth, conquer the native peoples, and take over land? | conquistador |
| Which explorer explored areas that today are Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama, and killed more than two thousand Mississippians? | Hernando de Soto |
| Which explorer took a native chief, Vitachuno, prisoner? | Hernando de Soto |
| Which word means "the process of taking control of an area and sending people to the newly controlled land to develop a settlement there"? | colonization |
| Which word means "unfamiliar"? | uncharted |
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