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Explorers
U.S. History
| Person | Description |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus | was an entrepreneur as well as a sailor. He set up his expedition like a business. Portugal was getting closer to sailing around Africa. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain didn’t want Portugal to be the first to reach Asia by sea. They agreed to s |
| John Cabot | Italian sailor living in England, King Henry VII hired him to explore, landed on either Cape Breton Island or Newfoundland ( now a part of Canada ), claimed this land for Britain and his discovery led the way for British discovery of North America |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian who sailed for Spain, thought he had reached China but later thought he had found a New World, in 1507 map maker Martin Waldseemuller wanted this New World to be named America after this explorer |
| Ferdinand Magellan | decided to circumnavigate the world, discovered a strait near the southernmost tip of South AMerica, it links the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. This strait is now named after him. |
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa | Spanish explorer. He led a group of settlers to set up one of the first European colonies in the Americas, at Santa María de la Antigua in present-day Colombia. He and the settlers collected gold from the native people through trade and warfare. He became |
| Francisco Pizarro | ambushed the Inca emperor, Atahualpa. He soon executed Atahualpa and joined with the Incas’ enemies to help put down resistance. |
| Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo | is known as the first European to discover California. He was looking for rich cities and an all-water route through the Americas. |
| Francisco Vázquez de Coronado | traveled from Mexico to present-day Kansas by land looking for the legendary Seven Golden Cities of Cibola. Members of his group were the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River. They never found any golden cities. |
| Hernando de Soto | helped another explorer conquer the Incas. Later, he took 600 men and traveled from Cuba to Florida. He voyaged by land through present-day Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Missouri. He fought with native peoples, including the |
| Juan Ponce de León | was governor of Puerto Rico until he lost his position to political rivals. Seeking new land, he explored the Caribbean. In 1513, he landed on the North American mainland and named the region Florida. A later attempt to settle Florida failed when Native A |
| Hernán Cortés | was a Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico for Spain. The Aztecs were not well liked by neighboring cultures. One such neighbor, the city-state of Tlaxcala, joined forces with him. A thousand Tlaxcaltecs went with him to attac |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano | an Italian explorer working for France, was looking for a sea route to Asia. His voyages took him along the North American coast. There, he first spotted New York Harbor. He continued north to Newfoundland before returning to France. He made two additiona |
| Jacques Cartier | a French explorer, was sent to find the Northwest Passage. His voyage took him up the St. Lawrence River into what is now Quebec, Canada. On a later voyage, he tried to establish a colony in the area. Before the colonists arrived, he found what he thought |
| Henry Hudson | led four voyages to North America in search of the Northwest Passage. A river in New York and a Bay in Canada are named for him. He was the first European known to have explored these waterways. His fourth voyage ended in a mutiny, or rebellion, that left |
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