This "Europeans Reach the Americas" Worksheet helps students learn about the early explorers to America (Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro), how Spain ruled its American empire (using viceroys, pueblos, presidios, missions), and the positive and negative effects the Europeans had on Native Americans.



Help
I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
