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English & Others,52,4
\Who was the ship captain who sailed twice each for the
\Dutch and the British?\
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Dan Duluth
Adriaen Block
\What was Henry Hudson searching for in his voyages?\
a passage to the markets in the Far East
gold and Silver mines in Mexico
fur trade in the Pacific Northwest
pirate treasure in the West Indies
\Why did the Dutch initially come to American?\
to trade with the Indians
to mine the silver
to get slaves
to develop a dairy industry
\It is possible that the ... prevented the French from
\expanding south into New York State.\
Dutch and Iroquois friendship pact
selling of whiskey to the Indians
treaty with the Hurons and Algonquins
Maine settlers
\Which country did all Dutchmen hate?\
Spain
France
England
Sweden
\Who was the first Director General of New Amsterdam and
\later a director of the New Sweden Company?\
Peter Minuit
Henry Hudson
Peter Stuyvesant
Adriaen Block
\The wealth of the New World British colonies increased
\largely due to ....\
agriculture and fishery
gold and other metals
furs and leather products
industrial goods
\What body of land was John Cabot looking for when he
\sailed west in 1497?\
Asia
Virginia
Maine
Newfoundland
\For nearly 100 years after John Cabot's voyages England's
\energies turned to developing a/an ....\
commercial empire which did not include the New World
fur trading & finshing monopoly in Canada
isolationist and inward looking economy
aggressive settlement of Virginia and New England
\Who was the British ruler who supported exploration
\and the sea rovers who attacked Spanish ships?\
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Mary
King Henry VIII
King Charles III
\Why did Drake sail to the West coast?\
to steal Spanish treasure
to trade with the Indians for sea otter skins
to join the California gold strike
to find a river route through the continent
\After whose 1576-78 voyages were there rumors of gold?
\He also reported that he had found the NW Passage.\
Martin Frobisher
John Hawkins
Humphrey Gilbert
John Davis
\.... and .... were sent out by Raleigh to make a
\reconnaissance of the East coast.\
Amandas ... Barlowe
Davis ... Gilbert
Frobisher ... Hawkins
Weymouth ... Smith
\What 16th century event in Europe made the New World
\safer for the British?\
the defeat of the Spanish Armada
a friendship treaty with the French in Canada
a trade pact with the Hurons and Dutch
the end of the Napoleonic wars
\Which explorer investigated the US coast on the ship
\Matthew 1497, took 35 days; & in 1498 with 5 ships.\
John Cabot
Columbus
Francis Drake
John Smith
\Name the explorer who achieved the first recorded land-
\fall in North America in 1497 (since the Vikings?)\
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
Verrazano
John Davis
\Who explored Newfoundland (Labrador?) and Cape Breton
\Island to possibly the Delaware?\
John Cabot
Martin Frobisher
John Davis
Henry Hudson
\Who was convinced that his 1497-98 discoveries were
\part of Asia?\
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
Francis Drake
John Hawkins
\Which explorer was born c1450, died c1498 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1497-98?\
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
John Smith
Martin Frobisher
\Which sea captain landed in California 1579 and established
\an English claim to the West Coast?\
Francis Drake
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
John Davis
\Name the adventurer who carried Virginia settlers back to
\England in 1585.\
Francis Drake
John Smith
Humphrey Gilbert
Philip Amandas
\Who was the first Englishman to circle the globe?\
Drake
Cabot
Hudson
Raleigh
\Who plundered Spanish settlements & ships on the Atlantic &
\Pacific coasts?\
Francis Drake
Henry Hudson
Arthur Barlowe
George Weymouth
\Which explorer helped found Jamestown in 1607?\
John Smith
Martin Frobisher
Humphrey Gilbert
John Davis
\Name the explorer who explored the New England Coast,
\named New England & publish a map used by Pilgrims 1614.\
John Smith
Walter Raleigh
Arthur Barlowe
Richard Grenville
\Who emphasized settlements over search for gold and forced
\settlers to "work or not eat"?\
John Smith
Samuel Argall
De la Warr
Capt Newport
\Who advised the Pilgrims & Puritans in England about conditions
\in New England?\
John Smith
John Rolfe
De la Warr
Martin Pring
\Which explorer was born c1580, died 1631 and was active
\in US exploration during a period 1607-14?\
John Smith
James Cabot
Thomas Hanham
James Towne
\With which of the following statements was John Smith
\most closely associated?\
Almost single handed saved the Jamestown settlement
Introduced tobacco to save the town
Insisted that the settlers search for gold
Insisted that the settlers depend on the Indians for food
\Which explorer sailed the Hopewell for the Muscovy Company
\in search for the Northeast Passage to the Orient in 1607
\and 1608?\
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Sebastian Cabot
John Smith
\Name the explorer who sailed the Dutch Half Moon west to
\Virginia and north, up the Hudson River to Albany 1609?\
Henry Hudson
Lord Albany
The Duke of York
James Gilbert
\Whose men mutinied in 1610; he & others set adrift to die?\
Henry Hudson
Sebastian Cabot
Francis Drake
John Hawkins
\Which explorer was part of the Royal Navy and performed
\a survey of the coast of Newfoundland & Labrador 1763-67?\
Cook
Hudson
Drake
Vancouver
\Name the one who explored New Zealand & East Australia
\during 1768-71?\
James Cook
Vancouver
Vitis Bering
Alexander Mackenzie
\Who explored the Northwest American coast from California to
\Alaska in search of a river passage east 1772-75?\
James Cook
David Thompson
Donald McKenzie
Henry Hudson
\Who discovered Russian Alaskan sea otter trading activity?\
James Cook
Donald McKenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
Peter Ogden
\Name the explorer 1st to cross North America to the Pacific
\and establish the breadth of continent 1793\
Alexander Mackenzie
David Thompson
Donald McKenzie
Peter Ogden
\Which explorer was born c1764, died 1820 and was active
\in US exploration during a period 1789-93?\
Alexander Mackenzie
Donald McKenzie
Peter Ogden
John Rolfe
\Name the explorer who joined Astor in 1810 and went with Hunt to
\establish Astoria?\
Donald McKenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
James Cook
John Davis
\Who rejoined the Northwest Fur Co & returned to Fort George
\in 1816?\
Donald McKenzie
Robert Gray
William Clark
Jedediah Smith
\Who was the first to traverse Hell's Canyon 1819?\
Donald McKenzie
Meriweather Lewis
Peter Ogden
John Astor
\Which explorer was born 1783, died 1851 and was active
\in US exploration during a period 1812-1821?\
Donald McKenzie
Jacob Astor
David Thompson
John Colter
\Which explorer was apprenticed to Hudson's Bay Co at 14 and
\joined the North West Co 1797?\
David Thompson
Jacob Astor
Jedediah Smith
Peter Ogden
\Name the explorer who explored the headwaters of the
\Missouri & Mississippi rivers 1797-98?\
David Thompson
Peter Ogden
James Cook
George Columbia
\Who was the explorer who was the first to explore the
\Columbia River from its source to its mouth?\
David Thompson
William Clark
Donald McKenzie
John Colter
\Who built Kootenae House, the 1st trading post on the
\Columbia River 1807?\
David Thompson
Donald McKenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
James Cook
\Which explorer was born 1770, died 1857 and was active
\in US exploration during a period 1807-12?\
Thompson
Vancouver
Hudson
Bering
\The Great Salt Lake was possibly first seen by a party
\led by ....\
Peter Skene Ogden
Jedediah Smith
John Willamette
David Thompson
\By 1830 .... may have know more about the West than any other
\man except Jedediah Smith.\
Ogden
Jackson
Hudson
Mackenzie
\What attracted the English explorers to the Northwest?\
the fur trade
farming and ranchin
to defend the area from the Spanish
timber and lumber products
\What impact did the discovery of sea otter trade have
\on American exploration? It led to ....\
increased efforts to reach the NW overland
of a commercial trade agreement with Russia
a triangular trade with China
the purchase of Alaska from Spain
\What was Mackenzie trying to accomplish?\
a river route to the west coast
gold mines for the company
a warm water port in Hudsons Bay
to find farming land to supply his trappers