Chapter 2 Flashcards
The first Europeans to visit North America were the ___________.
Vikings
Columbus led a voyage to discover a new route to Asia sailing on what three ships?
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Vasco Da Gama sailed around _______ to get to the country of India.
Africa
The First explorer to realize that America was a new world was
Amerigo Vespucci
The First Explorer to
see the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Da Balboa
Ponce De Leon was the first explorer to discover ___________.
Florida
Flordia is a ________________,
a body of land surrounded
on three sides by water.
Peninsula
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.
Hernando Cortez
Marco Polo traveled east to China, a country found on the ___________,
and reported that he had seen great wealth and wonders.
Continent of Asia
The Leader of the Aztecs in Mexico was ___________.
Montezuma
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.
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.
North America is made up of ?
Hint: We call them countries.
Canada, United States, and Mexico
__________ is the continent responsible for the settlement of the New World.
Europe
These countries had claims
in the New World
France, Spain, and England
This man was searching for the Seven
Cities of Cibola and found the ___________________.
Francisco de Coronado
Grand Canyon
The first Spanish settlement in the New World was named ___________.
St. Augustine
__________ was first
called “New France.”
Canada
The United States touches the ________ Ocean on the WEST coast and the ___________ ocean on the EAST coast.
Pacific / Atlantic
The country to the NORTH of the United States is?
Canada
The country to the SOUTH of the United States is?
Mexico
What is a compass rose?
a similar design, often ornamented, used on maps to indicate the points of the compass
The first important French settlement in the New World was _________.
Quebec
Quebec was founded by?
Samuel de Champlain
British pirates and English captains who raided Spanish ships were called?
Sea Dogs
________ raided Spanish
ships for England.
Nickname Drake the Dragon. He was the most feared pirate by the Spanish.
Sir Francis Drake
This Man discovered the Mississippi River.
Hernando De Soto
The Mississippi River was called “the Father of Waters” by the _________.
Indians
The English mapmaker who sailed to the New World in 1497
John Cabot
United States
Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
West Indies
