Vocabulary
A trade route through the Americas to the Pacific Ocean?
Northwest Passage
What year did Christopher Columbus land on the shores of what he thought was the East Indies?
1492
British naval officer who charted Canada’s St. Lawrence river and Newfoundland’s coast waters.
James Cook
A flying fish can propel itself __________ feet or less.
150
Discovered Barrow straight; spent winter in Arctic and set record for furthest northern journey?
William Parry
People sent for a religious cause?
Missionaries
What is the term for people sent to the New World for a religious cause?
Missionaries
Trapper who explored as far west as Rocky Mountains; cut new wagon trails and surveyed for railroad.
James Bridger
What year did the first woman travel down the Amazon?
1769
Found the mouth of the Amazon River, new world maps were made from his writings; America and Philippines.
Amerigo Vespucci
A person sent by a king to colonize?
Conquistadors
What did Christopher Columbus accomplish from his first journeys to the New World?
He opened up the New World to the Europeans.
Led the first expedition to sail around the world; explored tip of South America and Philippines.
Ferdinand Magellan
Why does the flying fish choose to fly?
Sailed inland on Rio de la Plata, was beckoned ashore by natives, then killed, cooked and eaten.
Juan Diaz de Solis
The father of economics?
Adam Smith
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! (points double!)
What were people mainly seeking when they came to the now United States until about 1804?
Business opportunities & religious freedom
Searched the West Coast of United States for Northwest Passage and became second man to sail around the world.
Francis Drake
Who was the first woman to travel down the Amazon?
Isabella Godin des Odonais
Trapped, hunted and guided in the western United States; guided trade groups and John C. Fremont.
Christopher “Kit” Carson
The first woman to descend the Amazon?
Isabella Godin des Odonais
What colony did Don Juan de Onate successfully establish?
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An early economist born in 1723 in Scotland?
Adam Smith
How is a flying fish distinguished?
long pectoral fins
Explored Canada’s Lancaster Sound; discovered Boothia Peninsula and took inland route back to sound.
John Ross