US history Chp. 1

Question 1

The story of what has happened in the life of a person or nation

Answer 1

History

Question 2

The study of the earth’s surface

Answer 2

Geography

Question 3

A large mass of land

Answer 3

Continent

Question 4

The largest bodies of water

Answer 4

Oceans

Question 5

Name given to Europe after the Americas were discovered

Answer 5

Old World

Question 6

The name given to the Americas

Answer 6

New World

Question 7

Italian Sailor who discovered America in 1492

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

Italian merchant who visited China and described its riches to Europe

Answer 8

Marco Polo

Question 9

The three ships used on Columbus’s first voyage

Answer 9

Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 10

King and queen of Spain who financed Columbus’s voyages (gave money and resources to him)

Answer 10

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 11

Name Columbus gave the people of the New World because he thought he was in India

Answer 11

Indians

Question 12

People from Scandinavia who sailed the seas and settled in Greenland and Iceland

Answer 12

Vikings

Question 13

Viking who was the first European to visit America

Answer 13

Lief Ericson

Question 14

English explorer who claimed land in North America for England in 1497

Answer 14

John Cabot

Question 15

Explorer who was the first to call America a New World

Answer 15

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 16

Portuguese explorer who was the first to sell around the tip of Africa

Answer 16

Vasco da Gama

Question 17

Spanish explorer who claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain and named it the Great South Sea

Answer 17

Vasco de Balboa

Question 18

First European to explore the land that is now the United States; explored and named Florida

Answer 18

Ponce de Leon

Question 19

Island in the West Indies where Columbus first landed

Answer 19

San Salvador

Question 20

Vikings’ name for America

Answer 20

Vinland