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Grade 4 History Ch 2
Grade 4 History Ch 2 Checkup
Question | Answer |
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Who searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola | Coronado |
What natural wonder did Coronado discover on his journey? | the Grand Canyon |
What did de Sotto discover on his journey to search for gold? | the Mississippi River |
Why were the discoveries of the Grand Canyon and the Mississippi River not especially exciting to the Spanish explorers? | One of their main goals was to find gold, not natural wonders, in the lands that they explored |
What Spanish soldier conquered the Aztecs? | Cortez |
Who explored North America for France? | Cartier |
What great Indian tribe lived in what is now Mexico? | Aztecs |
Who was Montezuma | the leader of the Aztecs |
What was Cartier searching for? | a waterway through America to Asia |
What three things did Cartier do fro France? | opened the say for a fur trade with the Indians, developed a friendship between the French and the Indians, and gave France a claim to the New World |
What legendary place did the Indians describe? | the Seven Cities of Cibola |
What area did Coronado explore? | Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas) |
Who discovered the Mississippi River? | de Soto |
What was de Soto really searching for? | gold |
What queen permitted English pirates to attack Spanish ships? | Elizabeth I |
What were English pirates called? | "sea dogs" |
What was the frist successful French settlement in America? | Quebec |
Who helped found Quebec? | Champlain |
What was the first permanent European settlement in America? | St. Augustine |
Name the three powerful countries with claims in the New World during the years of discovery. | Spain, France, and England |