Ch 40 and 41 Narrate and Mapwork

Narrate page 362 paragraph 4
Map
English Settlements in North America
1. Queen Elizabeth was worried that the Spanish empire would become too powerful if it controlled North
America. Color Spain purple.
2. The Spanish already had a colony in North America, located in what we now call Florida. Underline the
words “Spanish colony” in purple.
3. Colonists would sail to the Florida colony from Spain. Draw a purple line from Spain to the Spanish
colony.
4. Queen Elizabeth wanted England to have its own North American colony. Color England green.
5. Sir Walter Raleigh sent colonists to North America to start a colony (today, the island on which the English
settled is a part of North Carolina). Draw a green line from England to the English colony to represent the
sea journey needed to get there.

Ch 41 Map
Newfoundland
1. John Cabot sailed from England to Newfoundland. Color the island of Newfoundland pink.
2. The fishing settlement on Newfoundland was the first European colony in the country we now call Canada.
Circle the fishing settlement, called St. John’s, in red.
3. Jacques Cartier sailed past the island of Newfoundland and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Color the Gulf
of St. Lawrence green.
4. Cartier befriended the Micmacs, a Native American tribe. Circle the Micmac territory in orange.
5. Cartier also befriended the Hurons. Circle the Huron territory in blue.
6. Cartier sailed from the Gulf of St. Lawrence down the St. Lawrence River, a river he hoped would go all the
way to China. Trace the St. Lawrence River in green. It starts at the Gulf of St. Lawrence and ends at the
Great Lakes.