Explorers & Voyages
What Viking adventurer is believed to have reached North America around A.D. 1000?
Answer: Who was Leif Ericson?
What term refers to pride in one’s country that inspired explorers to seek glory?
Answer: What is nationalism?
Who discovered an all-water route to India?
Answer: Who was Vasco da Gama?
Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Who was Vasco de Balboa?
Who began the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: Who was Martin Luther?
This event allowed England to begin colonizing the New World after 1588.
Answer: What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
Name the king and queen of Spain who sponsored Columbus’s expedition.
Answer: Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
Name one of the two areas in which the Pilgrims set precedents in the New World.
Answer: What are religious liberty or political liberty?
Who discovered the St. Lawrence River?
Answer: Who was Jacques Cartier?
Who claimed Nova Albion?
Answer: Who was Sir Francis Drake?
Who wrote the first American history book?
Answer: Who was William Bradford?
This movement revived biblical Christianity in Europe and gave England a strong foundation.
Answer: What was the Protestant Reformation?
Who was the first English child born in present-day United States?
Answer: Who was Virginia Dare?
What was the name of the forced union of colonies governed by Sir Edmund Andros?
Answer: What is the Dominion of New England?
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Answer: Who was Hernando de Soto?
Who claimed the Mississippi Valley as Louisiana for France?
Answer: Who was Robert Cavalier de La Salle?
Which act illustrates Pilgrims’ focus on education in Massachusetts?
Answer: What is the Ole’ Deluder Satan Act?
This Viking discovery was delayed until Christianity spread to Europe.
Answer: What was Leif Ericson’s landing in North America?
Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Answer: Who was Daniel Boone?
What colonial region was known for growing indigo and rice?
Answer: What are the southern colonies?
One of two explorers who explored the central Mississippi River.
Answer: Who was Jacques Marquette?
Who sponsored voyages to explore Virginia?
Answer: Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
Which dissenter encouraged freedom of religion and founded Rhode Island?
Answer: Who was Roger Williams?
This group’s oppression by the Anglican church encouraged them to immigrate to America.
Answer: Who were the Puritans and Separatists?
Who claimed Newfoundland for England?
Answer: Who was John Cabot?
What act required Massachusetts Bay Colony towns with over 50 families to hire a teacher?
Answer: What is the Ole’ Deluder Satan Act?
Who searched for the Northwest Passage?
Answer: Who was Sir Martin Frobisher?
Who claimed territory for France and founded Quebec?
Answer: Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Which trial set a precedent for freedom of the press?
Answer: What was the Zenger Trial?
This Native American helped Plymouth settlers survive.
Answer: Who was Squanto?