I traveled from France by Newfoundland around the Gulf of St. Lawrence, down the St. Lawrence River.
It was 1609 when I discovered a lake that was named for me!
Follow me from France across the
Atlantic, down the St. Lawrence to
Quebec.
BLUE
Waterways–St. Lawrence River & Great Lakes . Settled Quebec (Canada).
JohnKing Henry VII (7 th ) of
England gave me a ship, the
Matthew, to command as I voyaged across the Atlantic
Ocean.
It was 1497 when I landed near
Newfoundland, Labrador & Cape
Breton.
Using PURPLE , draw my voyage from England then back to Europe.
John Cabot
The coastline of northern Canada (Labrador, Newfoundland)
I was governor of New Galicia, a western province in Mexico.
In 1540, I traveled through the area of
Northern Mexico.
I didn’t find the “Seven Cities of Gold” there, so I traveled west to the Colorado
River and then east to Kansas.
Present day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, & Kansas.
King Louis XVI (14 th ) sent me to the
“New World” to travel south from
Canada, down the Mississippi to the
Gulf of Mexico.
I named the entire Mississippi Basin
“Louisiana in honor of the King of
France on April 9, 1862.
Trace the route I took in GREEN .
Water Routes - Great Lakes, to the Mississippi River Valley, & Gulf of Mexico