Explorers & Voyages
This Italian explorer sailed for England in 1497 and explored Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
This English settlement mysteriously disappeared and became known as “The Lost Colony.”
What is Roanoke?
What was the Northwest Passage?
What is a water route through North America to Asia?
John Cabot found an ocean full of these valuable fish near Newfoundland.
What is cod (fish)?
The mountain range that runs from Maine to Alabama.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River and named the land “Canada.”
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The Dutch colony that later became New York.
What is New Netherland?
Why couldn’t explorers use the Northwest Passage in the 1500s and 1600s?
What is it was blocked by Arctic ice?
The main item Native Americans traded with the Dutch and French.
What is fur?
The region of flat grasslands in the middle of North America.
What are the Great Plains?
He explored New York Harbor and the Hudson River for France.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
This man bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans and named the settlement New Amsterdam.
Who is Peter Minuit?
This explorer got trapped in ice while searching for the Northwest Passage and was abandoned by his crew.
Who is Henry Hudson?
This trade helped both the French and Native Americans.
What is the fur trade?
The area where rivers to the east flow to the Atlantic and to the west flow to the Pacific.
What is the Continental Divide?
This explorer sailed for both England and the Netherlands and has a river and bay named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
England took over this Dutch colony in 1664 and renamed it New York.
What is New Netherland?
Today, ships can travel through the Northwest Passage during this season.
What is summer?
What did Native Americans receive in exchange for furs?
What are tools, weapons, and supplies?
This western U.S. desert covers parts of California, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.
What is the Mojave Desert?
What were European explorers originally trying to find when they sailed west across the Atlantic?
What is a shorter trade route to Asia?
The main reason France wanted to settle in North America.
What is to make money trading furs?
What was the main goal of explorers searching for the Northwest Passage?
What is to find a faster trade route to Asia?
Why was dried fish important to Europeans?
What is it was an important source of food?
The deep canyon carved by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?