Chapter 2

Question 1

The first Europeans to visit North America were the ___________.

Answer 1

Vikings

Question 2

Columbus led a voyage to discover a new route to Asia sailing on what three ships?

Answer 2

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 3

Vasco Da Gama sailed around _______ to get to the country of India.

Answer 3

Africa

Question 4

The First explorer to realize that America was a new world was

Answer 4

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 5

The First Explorer to

see the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 5

Vasco Da Balboa

Question 6

Ponce De Leon was the first explorer to discover ___________.

Answer 6

Florida

Question 7

Flordia is a ________________,

a body of land surrounded

on three sides by water.

Answer 7

Peninsula

Question 8

This man was a Spanish explorer and conquered the Aztecs in Mexico in 1519.

The Aztecs were rich and powerful. They had a beautiful city. They greeted him with silver and gold, but he was not satisfied with their gifts. He died a lonely man.

Answer 8

Hernando Cortez

Question 9

Marco Polo traveled east to China, a country found on the ___________,

and reported that he had seen great wealth and wonders.

Answer 9

Continent of Asia

Question 10

The Leader of the Aztecs in Mexico was ___________.

Answer 10

Montezuma

Question 11

This man explored North America for France. He did NOT find what he had set out to find, which was a waterway through North America to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 11

Jacques Cartier

The French were mostly searching for a water route

to the Pacific in the New World.

Cartier claimed a part of North America for France. He set up a wooden cross that said, “long live the King of France.”

Cartier was kind to the Indians and traded with them.

Question 12

North America is made up of ?

Hint: We call them countries.

Answer 12

Canada, United States, and Mexico

Question 13

__________ is the continent responsible for the settlement of the New World.

Answer 13

Europe

Question 14

These countries had claims

in the New World

Answer 14

France, Spain, and England

Question 15

This man was searching for the Seven

Cities of Cibola and found the ___________________.

Answer 15

Francisco de Coronado

Grand Canyon

Question 16

The first Spanish settlement in the New World was named ___________.

Answer 16

St. Augustine

Question 17

__________ was first

called “New France.”

Answer 17

Canada

Question 18

The United States touches the ________ Ocean on the WEST coast and the ___________ ocean on the EAST coast.

Answer 18

Pacific / Atlantic

Question 19

The country to the NORTH of the United States is?

Answer 19

Canada

Question 20

The country to the SOUTH of the United States is?

Answer 20

Mexico

Question 21

What is a compass rose?

Answer 21

a similar design, often ornamented, used on maps to indicate the points of the compass

Question 22

The first important French settlement in the New World was _________.

Answer 22

Quebec

Question 23

Quebec was founded by?

Answer 23

Samuel de Champlain

Question 24

British pirates and English captains who raided Spanish ships were called?

Answer 24

Sea Dogs

Question 25

________ raided Spanish

ships for England.

Nickname Drake the Dragon. He was the most feared pirate by the Spanish.

Answer 25

Sir Francis Drake

Question 26

This Man discovered the Mississippi River.

Answer 26

Hernando De Soto

Question 27

The Mississippi River was called “the Father of Waters” by the _________.

Answer 27

Indians

Question 28

The English mapmaker who sailed to the New World in 1497

Answer 28

John Cabot

Question 29

Answer 29

United States

Question 30

Answer 30

Mexico

Question 31

Answer 31

Pacific Ocean

Question 32

Answer 32

Atlantic Ocean

Question 33

Answer 33

Canada

Question 34

Answer 34

Gulf of Mexico

Question 35

Answer 35

West Indies