Eighth Grade Homework on European Advances into North America

Eighth Graders are studying how and why Europeans contacted and settled North America. Today in class, we looked at this page which lists various contacts from European explorers and settlements in North America.

Students need to create lists that cover 1492 to 1699. Using the information at the webpage above, sort the explorers or settlements into columns under which country they were sailing for (you'll have one column for Spain, one for England, one for France, etc.) Include where they explored or settled.

We started this in class; it is due tomorrow. It needs to be written or taped into your history notebook on the right-hand side.

Here's an example of the assignment in progress.