Chapter 2: Age of Exploration

What were the European Explorers hoping to find when they started their expeditions?

• Food and Shelter

• Trade Route & Gold

• Native Americans

• A place to build a new country

Who already lived where the Europeans explored?

• No One

• Other explorers

• China

• Native Americans

How were the Native Americans impacted when the Europeans began exploring the Americas?

How do countries today compete like the did during the Age of Exploration?

Why do you think European Countries sent their explorers North in the Americas?

• They thought it looked cool.

• They thought no Native Americans were living there.

• The Spanish had already claimed land in the south.

• That was fastest

Why did the first settlements, settle near the Hudson River?

• So they had something to drink.

• Water ways were an easy way to trade and transport.

• They wanted to swim in their free time.

• They came only to catch fish.

Why did the French keep such a great relationship with the Natives?

• They were besties

• They wanted to take all of their stuff.

• They wanted to trade fur with them.

• They were just nice people.