Places
Explorers
Vocabulary
Short Response
Who Did What?
100
Columbus sailed for this country.
What is Spain?
100
This is the Spanish word for conquerers.
What is a conquistador?
100
This is how Florida got its name.
What is from the beautiful flowers that grew there.
100
Ponce De Leon is Famous for discovering this.
What is Florida
200
This is another name for the city of gold.
What is El Dorado?
200
This explorer was searching for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Ponce de Leon.
200
This is another name for a Spanish fort.
What is a presidio?
200
A mission is...
What is a religious community especially one in the Spanish Southwest.
200
This person set up missions in Florida.
Who is Father Serra
300
The first Spanish Colony in Florida.
What is St. Augustine?
300
Hernando de Soto was the first to see this.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
A group of people who settle in a distant land but remain politically connected to their homeland.
What is a colony?
300
This is what the explorers were searching for to make their trip to Asia shorter.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This Publo Indian healer organized a rebellion against the Spaniards after being publicly whipped/
Who is Pope?
400
This person explored Canada and the New England Coast.
Who is Champlain?
400
This explorer explored the American Southwest looking for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Coronado?
400
To leave behind or give up on.
What is abandon?
400
These were the Five big bodies of water discovered by Champlain.
What are the Great Lakes?
400
This explorer was born in Italy, but sailed for England.
Who is John Cabot?
500
This person set up a colony named New France.
Who is Champlain?
500
This person sailed the two ships, The Half Moon and Discovery.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
Animals raised by humans, such as cattle.
What is livestock?
500
The name of the waterfall between the United States and Canada.
What is Niagra Falls?
500
This person explored the region that is now New York State.
Who is Henry Hudson?