U7 L4: French and English Explorers

The Portuguese originally began exploring the Atlantic because....

• they wanted to send missionaries

• they were looking for gold

• they were looking for a sea route to India

• they were trying to gain more power than Spain

The French originally began exploring North America because....

• they wanted to send missionaries

• they were looking for gold

• they were trying to gain more power than other nations

• they wanted to set up trade with the indigenous populations

The English dominated in what aspect of exploration?

• colonization of North America and sea routes to the New World

• the acquisition of gold and minerals

• to convert all of the indigenous people's to Catholicism

• to explore and control an all-water route to Asia

Which response about Prince Henry the Navigator is CORRECT?

• he founded a famous school for Navigation

• he was a skilled sailor and navigator

• he was the first explorer to cross the Atlantic

• he was the first explorer to reach the Indian Ocean

Organize these concepts based on whether they are longitude or latitude

Groups:

(a) longitude

,

(b) latitude

• Prime Meridian

• vertical

• Equator

• 
• horizontal

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Which one of these navigational tools is how we measure speed at sea as knots?

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Match the explorer to their route and accomplishments.

Groups:

(a) Bartolomeu Dias

,

(b) Vasco De Gama

,

(c) Jacques Cartier

,

(d) Henry Hudson

• looking for the Northwest passage

• explored St. Lawrence river and Canada

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• 
• 
• sailed around Africa and to India

• 
• first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope Affica

Which conflict gave the English the ability to open up sea exploration?

• The American Revolution

• The Spanish Armada

• The Hundred Years War

• The Third Crusade

While almost all colonizing European nations engaged in the slave trade, which nation was instrumental in the beginning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

• Great Britain

• France

• Spain

• Netherlands

Which explorer first covered the Mississippi River and claimed it for France?

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• Rene-Robert de La Salle

• Bartolomeu Dias