Fill in the blank. While Spain concentrated its efforts in South America, France claimed most of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains.The French explorers Jacques Cartier (1542) and Samuel de Champlain (1608) established outposts along the St. Lawrence River and into the Great Lakes, founding the territory known as ______________.

MCQs on the history of Latin and South America from the year in which European explorers first discovered and began to colonize the region to the early 19th century, when many Latin and South American colonies declared their independence from European rule.