Name of the Italian seaman who sailed for Spain and landed in what is today El Salvador.
Who is Christopher Columbus
Name of the English explorer that was sailing for the Netherlands, that claimed land for the Dutch in North America.
Name of the first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown
What items made the French their fortunes in North America?
Name of the author, whos book inspired explorers to find a new route to China.
Who is Marco Polo
What state did Ponce de Leon discover for the Spanish?
What is Florida
What did Henry Hudson call the new land claim he had discovered for the Dutch?
What is New Netherlands
Roanoke was founded by what man.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh
Name of the waterway that French explorers were looking for in North America.
What is the Northwest Passage
The 3 big motivations for European exploration.
What were Gold, Glory & God?
What was the new name the Dutch gave to Manhattan?
Who is John Cabot
Name of the French explorer that claimed land in Canada and called it New France.
Name the group of people who replaced Native Americans as slaves in the European settlements.
Who are the Africans
Name 2 Spaniards who explored the main continent of North America from our book.
Who was Ponce de Leon and Coronado?
Historians say that the Dutch paid how much to buy the Manhattan Island for the Native Americans?
What is $24
What was the main cash crop of the early English settlements?
What is tobacco
Name of the French explorer who explored the length of the Mississippi River.
Who is Robert Cavelier de La Salle
The name given to the transfer of people, animals, plants, disease, and ideas back and forth the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange
The reason why the Dutch handed over New Netherlands to the English without a fight.
Name of the man who would go on to marry Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe
Who founded the first French settlement in New France?
Samuel de Champlain