North American Exploration Quiz

What is the act of moving to a new area called?

• Exploration

• Colonization

• Settlement

• Mission

What is the term for one nation establishing itself in another region of the world?

• Discovery

• Colonization

• Settlement

• Exploration

Which term means traveling with the purpose to discover something?

• Settlement

• Colonization

• Exploration

• Mission

What year did "Columbus sail the ocean blue"? (That is, what year did he begin his journey from Spain?)

• 1542

• 1492

• 1510

• 1682

Which Spanish Explorer spread tales of the cities of Gold while he was in Mexico?

• Hernando Cortes

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Sieur de La Salle

Which conquistador battled the Aztecs in Mexico and renamed the land New Spain?

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortes

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Which explorer landed in the Bahama Islands when he was actually trying to sail to Asia?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Sieur de La Salle

Which explorer discovered many great landforms during his journey to discover the Seven Cities of Cibola.

• Hernando Cortes

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Sieur de La Salle

In what year did La Salle begin his exploration of Canada?

• 1643

• 1666

• 1682

• 1701

What river did La Salle and another explorer travel down to reach the Gulf of Mexico?

• Mississippi River

• Amazon River

• Nile River

• Yangtze River