Chapter 3: European Exploration of North America and North Carolina Textbook Pages 38-55
Essential Question: Why did Europeans first explore North America and North Carolina, and what were the consequences?
Vocabulary: Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, conquistadors, missionaries, Columbian Exchange, immunity, Giovanni da Verrazano, Juan Ponce de Leon
Questions for Review
1) What were the three main reasons Europeans first began to explore the Americas?
2) How was Catholicism brought to Mexico?
3) What were the positive and negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?
4) What were the major consequences of the Columbian Exchange for Native Americans and Europeans?
5) Why were English and French explorers searching for a northwest passage to Asia?
6) What mistake in geography did Verrazano make?
7) Based on what you have read about Verrazano’s travels, what qualities of the area of North Carolina do you think European settlers would later find attractive?
8) What was required in order for an explorer to claim land?
9) How justified was each claim in the eyes of a competing European nation?
10) How justified were the claims in the eyes of the Native Americans, who had inhabited the land for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Europeans?
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