Spanish Colonization

3. _______________ led the survivors on a long journey across North America
5. The Spanish Explorer who in 1542 led an expedition that sailed up the west coast of North America
8. Coronado’s expedition went as far east as today’s state of _______________.
9. Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the mainland of North America in today's state of
11. southeastern United States.
12. The main thing the Spanish explorers in North America were trying to find was _______________.
14. state of _______________

1. The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for the _______________ of Youth whose
2. The Coronado expedition left from New Spain which is today’s country called _______________.
4. were supposed to cure diseases and make old people young again.
6. named Juan Rodriguez _______________.
7. After the people in the Narvaez expedition were shipwrecked, a man named Alvar Nunez Cabeza
10. In 1543. the Spanish explorers of the Pacific coast of North America may have sailed as far north as
12. Explorers from the Coronado expedition were the first Europeans to see the _______________ Canyon.
13. Hernando _______________ led an expedition from 1539–1542 that explored lands that are today in