Early Spanish Explorers
On _________ 1492 Columbus claimed the land he found in the “New World” for the country of Spain.
October 12
____________ was the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Hernando DeSoto
The _____________ were Spanish conquerors.
conquistadors
_______ _______ explored eastern Canada and the New England coast.
Henry Hudson
______________ set up a colony named New France in what is present day _______.
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Christopher Columbus was an Italian Explorer who explored for the king and queen of __________.
Spain
A presidio is a _______.
fort
In the Southwest the Spaniards built religious communities called ___________.
missions
Henry Hudson also explored the region that is now ______ _____ State.
New York
_________ ________ is a waterfall between the United States and Canada which a French priest discovered in 1678.
Niagara Falls
_________________ was the first Spaniard to explore the lands that are now the United States.
Juan Ponce de Leon
The legend of El Dorado was about a famous city of ________.
gold
The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States is ________________ in present day Florida.
St. Augustine
Champlain found five big bodies of water called the ______ ________.
Great Lakes
Ponce de Leon was searching for the ______________.
Fountain of Youth
__________ set up missions in California.
Fr. Serra
________ led a rebellion of Pueblos against the Spanish.
Pope
The five Great Lakes are named:
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Lake Superior (Borders MN)
Ponce de Leon named ___________ for its flowers.
Florida
___________ explored the American Southwest searching for the Seven Cities of ________.
Coronado
Cibola
John Cabot sailed for ______, but like Christopher Columbus he was born in _______.
England
Italy
Most early European explorers in the Americas were looking for riches or a passage to _________.
Asia