Explorers
Section 1.2
History
Multiple Choice 1
Multiple Choice 2
100

How did America get its name?

A German mapmaker named it after Amerigo Vespucci

100

What nation financed Columbus Voyages?

Spain

100

Who may have been the first European group to discover America?

the Vikings

100

Indians possibly came to the Americas by crossing a land bridge connecting _____ to Alaska.

Asia

Europe

Africa

Australia


Asia

100

The Middle Passage was the trip slaves endured from Africa to ____.

Europe

Asia

America

Oceania


America

200

What Viking adventurer sailed west of Greenland

Leif Ericson

200

Why did Columbus call the people he met Indians?

He thought he had found the East Indies

200

Name one famous Spanish Explorer besides Columbus

Coronado de Soto

Juan de Leon

200

Who explored the Atlantic coast of North America for England in 1497?


Leif Ericson

Sir Walter Raleigh

John Cabot

Sir Francis Drake





John Cabot

200

Which group of Indians built elaborate houses in the sides of cliffs?

Eastern Woodlands

Southwest

Northwest Coast

Great Plains


Southwest

300

Name a Spanish explorer and the area he explorer?

Juan Ponce - Florida, Hernando De Soto Southeast and Mississippi River, Francisco Coronado - Southwest, Pueblo Villages, Grand Canyon, the Plains

300

What month did Columbus begin to sail and what month did he arrive in the new world?

August and October

300

Who discovered present day Newfoundland and called it Vinland

Leif Ericson

300

Which group's name means "rubber people"?

Aztec

Inca

Maya

Olmec


Olmec

300

Which group of Indians built totem poles?

Northwest Coast

Eastern Woodlands

Southwest

Great Plains


Northwest Coast

400

Name a French explorer and the area he explored

Jacques Cartier - St. Lawrence River, Robert De La Salle - Mississippi River, Samuel De Champlain - St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, Quebec

400

Where did Columbus specifically arrive when he got to the new world? 

Bahamas

400

Multiple Choice: Who traveled through the Southwest in search of the legendary cities of Cibola?

A. Hernando de Soto

B. Samuel de Champlain

C. Juan Ponce de Leon

D. Francisco Coronado


D. Francisco Coronado

400

Which civilization's main city was Tenochtitlan?

Aztec

Inca

Maya

Olmec


Aztec

400

Conquistadors were _____ conquerors.

Italian

French

English

Spanish


Spanish

500

Who was the English sailor that plundered Spanish ports in South America?

a. Francisco Coronado 

b. John Cabot

c. Sir Walter Raleigh

d. Sir Francis Drake

D. Sir Francis Drake

500

Name the 3 ships that Columbus used for the voyage

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Marie

500

Who is considered the first African in America?

Estaban

500

In what year was Jamestown founded?

1507

1598

1602

1607


1607

500

Which crop became a profitable cash crop for Jamestown?

Indigo

Cotton

Tobacco

Rice


Tobacco