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huge region LaSalle named after the French king Louis XIV

Louisiana

200

Italian explorer sailing for England who reached Newfoundland 

John Cabot

300

Italian explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage; a bridge in New York is named after him

Giovanni da Verrazano

400

English adventurer who started the Roanoke colony in America

Sir Walter Raleigh

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became the leader of England in 1558

Queen Elizabeth I

200

leader of Spain

King Philip II

300

large fleet of ships

armada

400

seaport founded by the French in 1718 at the mouth of the Mississippi River

New Orleans

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100

English explorer who explored the New York Harbor, the Hudson River and northern Canada

Henry Hudson

200

led his "sea dogs" against Spanish treasure ships carrying gold and silver from America to Spain

Francis Drake

300

first English child born in America; granddaughter of John White

Virginia Dare

400

leader of English who was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke Island in 1587

John White

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100

French explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage and found the St. Lawrence River

Jacques Cartier

200

known as "the Father of New France;" he built the first successful French settlement in America at Quebec

Samuel de Champlain

300

sailed across the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River

Marquette and Joliet

400

French fur trapper who reached the mouth of the Mississippi and claimed it for France

Robert LaSalle

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waterway through North America that linked the Atlantic and Pacific

Northwest Passage

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near the coast of present-day North Carolina where Sir Walter Raleigh sent people to begin a colony

Roanoke Island

300

a personal view or belief

opinion

400

something we know for certain

fact