Grade 5, Chapter 2, Lesson 3 Test

What is the meaning of the word diverse?

• being very large

• being all the same

• having a lot of variety

• having only a small amount

Match each description to the explorer it describes.

• He explored the eastern coast of Canada.

• Samuel de Champlain

• He explored Brazil and present day US

• John Cabot

• He explored N.A. and started colony

• Jean Nicollet

• He explored Lake Michigan.

• Giovanni da Verrazzano

Which detail describes the relationship between the native peoples of North America and European explorers?

• They shared land and resources and lived peacefully.

• They made a great effort to share the land and resources.

• They were often in conflict over land and other resources.

• They lived in different areas and avoided conflicts over land and resources.

Which evidence from the primary source best supports your response to Part A?

• "We had a cross made thirty feet high, which was put together in the presence of a number of savages ..."

• "When we had returned to our ships, the chief, dressed in an old black bearskin, arrived in a canoe with three of his sons and his brother ..."

• "And pointing to the cross he made us a long harangue, making the sign of the cross with two of his fingers ..."

• "... he pointed to the land all around about, as if he wished to say that all this region belonged to him, and that we ought not to have set up the cross without his permission."

What caused the conflict between New Netherland and a nearby Swedish colony?

• New Netherland's citizens took over a Swedish fort.

• The Swedish leader wanted forests from the Dutch colonists to build log cabins.

• Within their colony, the Swedes built log cabins that other settlers copied.

• The leader of New Netherland thought the Swedish colony was on Dutch territory.

What did Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, and Étienne Brûlé all fail to accomplish during their expeditions?

How did John White and the other colonists of the second Roanoke colony fail to learn from the mistakes of the first Roanoke colony?