Explorer Test

A place to trade products with others is called

• colony

• trading post

• explorer

Many explorers believed there was a __________ across North America to reach Asia

• Northeast Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Southeast Passage

• Southwest Passage

Who travels to unfamiliar places to find out about them?

• Explorer
• Tourist
• Sightseer

An Italian explorer who sailed for France and reached New York Bay in 1524 was _________ .

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrazano

Who is a person who works for another person without pay for a period of time to repay their passage to the New World?

• indentured servant

• explorer

• colonist

Who was an English explorer who sailed for the Netherlands in 1609? He sailed up the Hudson River looking for the Northwest passage to Asia.

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Giovanni da Verrazano

• Christopher Columbus

Who was an Italian explorer who sailed in 1492 in search of a route to Asia but reached the Caribbean instead?

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrrazano

• Henry Hudson

• Samuel de Champlain

What was the name of the powerful trading company that established the colony of New Netherland?

• Northwest Passage

• Dutch West India Company

• Dutch East India Company

This is a French explorer who built a settlement along the St. Lawrence River called Quebec

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

• Giovanni da Verrazano

A place ruled by another country

• city

• state

• colony