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Ch. 5 Routes of Exploration to the New World
Matching: Match the European explorer with the area explored
1. Cartier
2. Columbus
3. Coronado
4. Cabot
5. Hudson
6. Ponce de Leon
7. Cortes
8. LaSalle
a. American Southwest (7 Cities of Gold)
b. Mississippi River
c. North America - Canada
d. Mexico
e. Florida
f. Eastern Coast of Canada
g. Trying to find the East Indies
h. Saint Lawrence River
Explorers of the New World
Explorer
Date of Exploration
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortes
Jacques Cartier
Francisco Vasques de
Coronado
Henry Hudson
Robert de LaSalle
Use the table to answer the following questions about the explorers and their
explorations.
9. True or False: Most of the explorations took place during the 1500’s.
10.
True or False: Columbus and Cabot explored in the late 1400‘s.
11.
Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortes and Francisco Vasques de Coronado are
known as ________________________ because they were Spanish explorers who
planted Span’s flag on explored lands in the Americas.
12.
According to the table, most of the explorations occurred in the time frame of
______________ to _______________
13.
The rulers who paid the explorers to find shorter routes to the East Indies wanted
a. horses
b. coffee
c. tobacco
d. spices & silks
14. St. Augustine
a. is located in Spain.
b. is also known as fort Caroline.
c. was the first permanent European settlement in the United States.
d. is an important river into the Northwest Passage.
15 When Europeans reached the Americas, many American Indians died of horrible
disease because
a. the food that the Europeans brougt and shared with the American Indians was
spoiled.
b. their bodies could did not fight off the germs that the Eruopeans brought with them.
c. they did not have horses.
d. they were allergic to gold and silver.
16. Cortes invaded and had battles with
a. The South American Inca’s.
b. The Mexican Aztecs
c. The Central American Mayas
d. The Florida Seminoles
17. Juan Ponce de Leon was hoping to discover gold on his explorations, but even
better than gold, he was also looking for
a. the fountain of youth
b. the Northwest Passage
c. a shorter route to Asia
d. the Chesapeake Bay near present day Maryland
18. The Northwest Passage was important to the explorers because they were hoping it
bring them
a. gold and glory.
b. A shorter route to Asia
c. to the Pacific Ocean
d. the Aztec Emperor Montezuma
19. The Columbian Exchange is known as
a. a colony.
b. the flow of goods and ideas between the America’s & Europe.
c. a type of chocolate.
d. a ship used for exploration
20. The meaning of colony is
a. a settlement ruled by another country, not by its own people.
b. a body of water.
c. similar to a kingdom.
d. the trade of goods and services.
Also complete Page 22 in your Interactive Student Notebook.
Reading Further:
1. True or False. If false, correct to make true.
a. People from France who left to the new world were mostly Catholic.
b. French rulers only wanted gold and riches from the new world.
c. French built a fort, Fort Caroline in Florida to protect themselves from Spain.
d. Spain successfully establishment in Florida after defeating the French.
e. The first permanent European settlement in Florida is St. Augustine.
f.
The French settled in North America as fur traders.
2. What fort did the French build and settle in?
______________________________________
3. Who originally led the French to Florida?
a. Francisco Coronado
b. Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere
c. Henry Hudson
4. Why did the French want to go to Florida?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Gold and Riches
Wealth and Power
They wanted to grow more powerful than Spain
All of the above
5. How did the Spanish defeat the French at Fort Caroline?
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