Chapter 3

Question 1

What area of North America did Jacques Cartier explore?

Answer 1

St Lawrence River

Question 2

Cartier claimed the St Lawrence River for what country?

Answer 2

France

Question 3

What area of North America did Henry Hudson explore?

Answer 3

Part of New York and Canada (Hudson Bay and Hudson River)

Question 4

What area of North America did Juan Ponce de Leon explore?

Answer 4

Puerto Rico, Florida, southwestern United States

Question 5

What country did Juan Ponce de Leon claim land for?

Answer 5

Spain

Question 6

What area of North America did Hernando de Soto explore?

Answer 6

Peru and Tampa Bay in the southwestern half of the United States

Question 7

What country did Hernando de Soto claim land for?

Answer 7

Spain

Question 8

What area of North America did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explore?

Answer 8

Mexico, Florida, southwest US

Question 9

What country did Francisco Vasquez de Coronado claim land for?

Answer 9

Spain

Question 10

What are three obstacles that early European explorers faced?

Answer 10

They had poor navigation tools;
unknown dangers such as Indians, bad weather, and disease,
they needed a strong, fast ship,
and they needed money for the food, crew, and ship

Question 11

Describe Christopher Columbus’s expedition in 1492

Answer 11

He found some gold, animals and plants, tainos which were Indians, claimed land, and also found a supposed route to Asia from the west.

Question 12

What area did Columbus think you’d reached in 1492? How do we know he was wrong?

Answer 12

He thought he had reached Asia, but Balboa heard that there was an ocean to the west that he called the Pacific Ocean, and Magellan or at least his crew circumnavigated the earth and went all around the earth and found that Asia was farther back

Question 13

How were the expeditions of Cartier and Hudson different from most of the earlier expeditions to the Americas?

Answer 13

They were they explored the north, claimed land for France, England, and Holland instead of Spain, and at least Hudson’s was sponsored by trading companies instead of kings and Queens

Question 14

What were the main goals of early expeditions to the Americas?

Answer 14

To find riches gold, silk, spices, to gain frame, newland, and to spread religion

Question 15

In 1494, which two countries divided the Americas into the lands that each could claim?

Answer 15

Spain and Portugal

Question 16

Why would an explorer from one country agree to an expedition in search of new land etc for another country?

Answer 16

If their own country was not willing to pay for an expedition they might get paid by a company from a different country and also, sometimes they would go on expeditions just for adventure or to gain fame

Question 17

What was the Northwest Passage and why did so many countries sponsor expedition searching for it?

Answer 17

A supposed route to Asia that did not actually exist and it was meant for trading page in a much shorter cheaper way than the current routes

Question 18

What were the costs for going on an expedition?

Answer 18

costs of actual money for food, crew, ship, and supplies,
risking your life,
the possibility of failing and not finding anything
and being in debt.

Question 19

What were the benefits for going on an expedition?

Answer 19

They could enjoy it, they could find new trade routes, spread religion, gain new land power and riches of gold, silk, spices, and furs, and also gain fame

Question 20

Which nation did Hernando Cortes conquer?

Answer 20

Aztecs

Question 21

Which period showed learning, art, and something else?

Answer 21

The Renaissance