History questions?

Question

Plz answer some of these, if not all.

1 Who was the first Englishman to explore North America?
2.Which French explorer claimed the Mississippi Valley for France?
3Who was the Portuguese explorer who claimed the west coast of North America for Spain?

Answer 1

England was the first to compete with Spain for the honors and advantages of western discovery. In May, 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian by birth, but then a resident in England, accompanied by his son Sebastian, sailed, under the patronage of Henry VII., on a voyage of discovery. On the 3rd of July he fell in with land, which he named Prima Vista, and which is believed to have been the coast of Labrador. Thus the continent of America was discovered by Cabot more than a year before it was seen by Columbus, and more than two years before Vespucci visited it. The next year Sebastian Cabot made a second voyage, during which he explored the continent from Labrador to near Albemarle Sound.

New France began to grow south and west of the Great Lakes after 1673, when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet canoed across present day Wisconsin via the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway to discover the Mississippi River. From here, they followed the river south to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Afraid that they were drawing too near to areas of Spanish influence, the explorers turned north in Arkansas and returning to the Great Lakes, this time via the Illinois and Chicago rivers through present day Chicago.

Following the journey of Marquette and Jolliet, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle traveled the Mississippi to its delta, claiming the river's entire watershed for France in 1682 and naming the territory Louisiana in honor of Louis XIV of France. This gave France control of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains in addition to their holdings in the Great Lakes and Canada, and soon Frenchmen such as Nicholas Perrot were establishing trading posts and forts in the new territory.


The first of these was João Fernandes, a small landowner (lavrador) on the island of Terceira in the Azores. The details of his life and voyages are vague and uncertain, but it is known that he had business connections with the port of Bristol, that he was given a royal patent in 1499, and that he made one or more voyages to the New World. It is possible that in 1500 he reached what we know as Greenland, and called it Terra do Lavrador. The name later migrated south to what is now called Labrador. Fernandes then joined a Bristol syndicate, and it is thought that he was lost on a voyage to America in 1501. The syndicate seems to have continued to operate for a few years, with royal approval.

Answer 2

1. John Smith?
2. La Salle
3. Da GAma?

Answer 3

Ummm, don't you have a book you're supposed to read to get these very simple answers?

Answer 4

I will assume that this is homework. I cant answer that. You should as you will have the best resources for doing so.

Answer 5

1. Jesus
2. Stalin
3. Penis

Answer 6

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