Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 1:  Discovery and Exploration
Page 1 - 11 and 1 - 12   Map - Early Voyages of Discovery
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Answers for the blanks:

   This page has no blanks for students to complete.  Students should instead study the information in the two tables.
 
 

The Picture:
 
   This is a modern drawing of a Spanish ship of the type used during the 1500s.  When sailors sighted birds, they knew they were approaching land.  The crosses on the sails are a good reminder that one goal of the Spanish was the spread of Christianity to the natives of the New World.
Tips for completing the map:

   Students should work from the finished map shown on the Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning! 

   Ask students to mark the routes on the map very lightly with color pencils at first, so they can erase a mistake if necessary.  Do them in the order they actually took place - the dates are on the map, starting with Dias in 1487.
   Once students have the routes neatly placed on the map, they can go over the lines to darken the colors.
   Next, show the areas of colonization by Spain and Portugal in the New World.  The dotted lines will help guide students as they lightly shade the areas with the appropriate colors.  Be sure students complete the color key. 

   The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans should be labeled in the workbook with a regular #2 pencil or, if the students are very careful, with a blue pen.  (Regular color pencils don't work well for printing small letters.) 
   It is not necessary to color the seas, lakes, and oceans.  But some students may want to do so, and it's fine as long as they use light blue, and shade very lightly.

 

 
Reminder:  Students and teachers can also view the map shown below in the Maps section of the Internet support site.  A set of overhead transparencies of the completed maps is available at a modest price.

 
 

 
 
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