What were Europeans searching for when they first started exploring the Americans?
What is a sea route to Asia.
100
Which of the following tried to change the Catholic Church and caused it to send missionaries to the Americas?
a. the reformation
b. the renaissance
c. the Reconquista
d. the American Revolution
What is the reformation.
100
How did Balboa become famous?
He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
100
Pedro Menendez de Aviles was the leader of what settlement?
What is St. Augustine
100
What activity was most important to the Virginia Colony's early economy?
a. fur trading
b. fishing and whaling
c. gold and silver mining
d. tobacco farming
What is tobacco farming.
200
What country sponsored the first major expedition to the Americas?
What is Spain.
200
What was one way in which colonists in North America practiced forms of self-government?
What is the Mayflower Compact or the House of Burgesses where the Virginia colonists elected representatives for their own legislature.
200
Who explored the Southwest United States?
a.Coronado
b. de Leon
c. Cortes
d. de Soto
What is Hernando de Soto.
200
What were the 3 types of settlements that Spanish explorers built to protect their claims?
What are presidios, missions, and haciendas.
200
What was the House of Burgesses?
a. the main fort in the town of New Amsterdam
b. the largest French trading post on the Mississippi
c. the Virginia Colony's legislature
d. the company that funded the Jamestown settlement
What is the Virginia Colony's legislature.
300
Henry Hudson explored for which 2 countries?
What is England and the Dutch
300
Which country claimed the least amount of land?
What is England
300
Which of the following explorers was searching for the Northwest Passage when he explored the Americas?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Henry Hudson
c. Ferdinand Magellan
d. Amerigo Vespucci
What is Henry Hudson
300
Christopher Columbus used no insturments to guide him across the Atlantic Ocean.
True or False
What is false.
300
William Bradford what the leader of what colony?
a. Jamestown
b. Plymouth
c. Roanoke Island
d. Manhattan Island
What is Plymouth.
400
Christopher Columbus's discovery_______.
a. opened a new route to Asia
b. helped Spain find gold
c. exposed people on twp continents to each other and to new diseases, plants, and animals.
What is c
400
Robert LaSalle claimed the land around the Mississippi River and it's tributaries for what country?
What is France
400
What was the main reason that Dutch people came to New Netherlands?
What is to sell furs to Europe.
400
Franciso Vsaquez de Cioronado found the Seven Citites of Cibola.
True or False
What is False
400
Why is the Mayflower Compact an example of a primary source?
It is a primary resource because it was written by people who took part in the events.
500
Columbus sailed west for what reason?
What is a water route to Asia.
500
Samuel de Champlain's explorations_________
a. helped France colonize New France
b. led to the discovery of Lake Champlain
c both a and b
What is both a and b
500
What river did Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle explore for France?
What is the Mississippi.
500
Christopher Columbus used no instruments to guide him across the Atlantic Ocean
true or false
What is false
500
John Smith explored land where this settlement was later established.
a. New Orleans
b. Plymouth
c. New Amsterdam