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Vocabulary
100

The Spanish wanted this valuable metal in the New World?

Gold

100

The French traded this resource with Native Americans?

Fur

100

The explorer that was sent to find the Northwest Passage for the Dutch?

Henry Hudson

100

This was the name of the first successful English colony?

Jamestown

100

a system of money

currency

200

This was the name of the Spanish colony, home to St. Augustine?

Florida

200

These two French explorers were responsible for exploring the Mississippi River?

Marquette and Joliet

200

The name of the Dutch colony in North America?

New Amsterdam

200

This colony became known as the "Lost Colony" after its people disappeared from the colony?

Roanoke Colony

200

a system of trade for goods and services that uses money rather than barter, or an exchange of goods

monetary economy

300

Who was the Spanish explorer that found the Mississippi River?

Hernando de Soto

300

This colony was founded at the end of the Mississippi River by the Gulf of Mexico?

Louisiana
300

The Dutch lost their colony to this other European power in 1664?

English/British

300

This was the name of the cash crop that brought money into Jamestown?

Tobacco

300

relying chiefly on agriculture and farming

agrarian 

400

What was the name of the Spanish religion that they were converting Native Americans to?

Christianity/Catholicism

400

This was the Italian explorer that was hired by France to seek out a route to Asia.

Giovanni da Verrazzano

400

This was the name of the trading company that the Dutch used to monitor the trading of goods around the world.

Dutch East India Company/Dutch West India Company

400

This was the name of leader of the Jamestown colony that brought peace between the English and the Powhatan Tribe.

John Smith

400

a chain of islands

archipelago

500

What was the name of the mythical cities of gold that the Spanish were searching for?

Seven Cities of Cibola

500

An imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient.

Northwest Passage

500

The Dutch were able to build a monopoly off of this animal's pealt/fur

Beaver

500

This was the name of the time period in which the English colonists struggled in Jamestown due to a lack of food and a harsh winter?

The Starving Times

500

the rebellion of a ship’s crew against the captain

mutiny

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