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Identify the explorer who reached the Gulf of Mexico after exploring the Mississippi River, but who had hoped to reach the Pacific Ocean a. Ferdinand Magellan b. Rene-Robert La Salle c. Bartolomeu Dias d. Henry Hudson

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b. Rene-Robert La Salle
He was a French explorer who claimed the entire Mississippi River Basin as French territory.
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