English
Explorers
French
Explorers
The 1st
Colonies
Exploration
Potluck
Settle This
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nd
2
to Circumnavigate the
globe
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
English
Explorers
100 pts.
1st English ship to cross the
Atlantic. Sailed around
Newfoundland.
What was John Cabot’s ship?
English
Explorers
200 pts.
When he sailed for England he
explored the large bay area in
northern Canada.
What Henry Hudson?
English
Explorers
300 pts.
Queen Elizabeth I put him in
charge of starting English
colonies in the New World.
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
English
Explorers
400 pts.
The reason England was
exploring and colonizing North
America.
What was gold and natural
resources?
English
Explorers
500 pts.
The name of the French
settlement at the mouth of the
Mississippi River.
What is Louisiana?
50 pt Bonus: Who was it named
after?
French
Explorers
100 pts.
Jacques Marquette and Louis
Jolliet
Who were the priest (Marquette)
and fur trader (Jolliet) who
explored the Mississippi River
for France?
French
Explorers
200 pts.
He explored the St. Lawrence
River Valley and setup the
French settlement in Quebec.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
French
Explorers
300 pts.
Claimed the Mississippi River
(North America’s longest river)
and all the land watered by it for
France.
What was Robert La Salle?
French
Explorers
400 pts.
1. The reason the French
explored North America.
2. The reason France wanted to
colonize North America
What is 1. Northwest Passage
and 2. fur trade?
French
Explorers
500 pts.
Virginia
What is the name of the
English Colony?
st
1
Bonus: 50 pts. Who was it named
after?
The 1st
Colonies
100 pts.
“He that will not work, shall not
eat.”
What was John Smith’s way of
governing Jamestown?
The 1st
Colonies
200 pts.
The French Colony in North
America
What was New France?
The 1st
Colonies
300 pts.
1st English settlement in North
Ameria
What was Roanoke Island?
The 1st
Colonies
400 pts.
First permanent English
settlement in North America.
What was Jamestown?
Bonus: 50 pts. Why did colonists
come to Jamestown?
The 1st
Colonies
500 pts.
The first to explore the St.
Lawrence River Valley. He also
named a hill Mont Royal or
“Montreal.”
Who was Jacques Cartier?
Explorer
Potluck
100 pts.
What Giovanni da Verrazano was
searching for and where he
explored.
What is the Northwest Passage
and eastern coast of North
America (Hudson River/New
York Bay)?
Explorer
Potluck
200 pts.
The first major French
settlements of Montreal and
Quebec started out as…
What are fur trading posts?
Explorer
Potluck
300 pts.
His granddaughter was named
Virginia Dare and was the first
European child to be born in
America.
Who is John White?
Explorer
Potluck
400 pts.
Saved the Jamestown settlement
by developing tobacco as a cash
crop.
Who was John Rolfe?
Explorer
Potluck
500 pts.
Two groups who came to North
America in search of religious
freedom.
Settle This
100 pt
Who were the Puritans and
Pilgrims (separatists)?
Where did he go?
100 pt
The colony the Pilgrims
founded and who helped
them.
What was Plymouth and the
Wampanoag (Samoset and
Squanto)?
Where did he go?
200 pt
The settlement the Puritans
founded.
What is the Massachusetts Bay
Colony (including Boston)?
Where did he go?
300 pt
What were the first 2 steps
toward self-government in
America?
What were the Mayflower
Contract (law for good of all) and
the Virginia House of Burgesses
(like our Congress)?
Where did he go?
400 pt
The original name for New York
City and how the Dutch got it to
grow.
What is New Amsterdam and by
inviting other people from other
countries to live there (melting
pot like NYC is today)??
Where did he go?
500 pt
Final Jeopardy
How did the European search
for a Northwest Passage affect
the settling of North America?
(include what the Northwest
Passage is and what countries
were involved in searching for
it).
-Northwest Passage is…
-Europeans wouldn’t have been interested in N America if
they hadn’t been forced to explore it in the search for the NW
passage
explored much of North America searching for Northwest
Passage.
-Discovered the natural resources America had to offer
-Decided to start colonies here:
--French in Canada and Mississippi River area (New
France)
--English along coast and part of Canada (Virginia/New
England)
--Spain ( southern and southwestern US)
--Dutch mid-Atlantic (New York)