Multiple Choice
Which Venetian explorer’s accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?
a) Marco Polo
b) Giovanni de Verrazano
c) Giovanni Caboto
d) Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
Where did Vasco da Gama explore?
a) Newfoundland
b) the eastern coast of North America
c) the eastern coast of Africa
d) Caribbean islands
The eastern coast of Africa
What name was given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to
encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?
a) encomiendas
b) haciendas
c) Tordesillas
d) conquistadores
Encomiendas
A mapmaker
Cartographer
A plant used to add flavor to food
spice
Which explorer did not visit North America?
a) Ferdinand Magellan
b) Giovanni da Verrazano
c) Jacques Cartier
d) Henry Hudson
Ferdinand Magellan
Which trade got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France?
a) slave trade
b) sugar plantations
c) fur trade
d) tobacco industry
Fur trade
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
a) Jamestown, Virginia
b) Elizabeth, New Jersey
c) Victoria, Canada
d) New Amsterdam, New York
Jamestown, Virginia
To travel completely around something (such as Earth), especially by water
Circumnavigate
The rebellion of a ship’s crew against the captain
Mutiny
What body of water did Vasco Núñez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro?
a) the Indian Ocean
b) the Pacific Ocean
c) the Straits of Magellan
d) the Panama Canal
The Pacific Ocean
Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States?
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Sir Francis Drake
c) Henry Hudson
d) Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazano
Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?
a) Louisiana
b) Canada around Montreal
c) the Great Lakes
d) the Mississippi River
Canada around Montreal
A group of ships sailing together with the same purpose and under the control of the same leader
Fleet
A navigational instrument that uses a telescope and scale to determine latitude and longitude
Sextant
Who were the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River?
a) Verrazano and Hudson
b) Sieur and La Salle
c) Marquette and Jolliet
d) Champlain and Cartier
Marquette and Jolliet
What did Henry Hudson accomplish?
a) He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
b) He sailed up the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
c) He bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans.
d) He found a Northwest Passage across northern Canada.
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened?
a) England
b) France
c) Spain
d) the Netherlands
The Netherlands
Native to a particular region or environment
A situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of the supply of a good or service
Monopoly
What important route did Dias’s discovery lead to?
a) a westward route to the Spice Islands
b) a polar route to the Americas
c) a route to the Indian Ocean
d) a path around South America
A route to the Indian Ocean
What was the Middle Passage?
a) the journey of enslaved Africans from the market to the plantations where they worked
b) the journey around the Cape of Good Hope on the way to the Indian Ocean
c) the journey through the Straits of Magellan on the way to the Pacific Ocean
d) the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
The journey of enslaved Africans from the market to the plantations where they worked
What did Henry Hudson accomplish?
a) He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
b) He sailed up the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
c) He bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans.
d) He found a Northwest Passage across northern Canada.
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
The practice of controlling and settling an area with people from another country
Colonization
A sea route connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America
Northwestern Passage