Religious Rivalries
Set Sail for the Northwest Passage
New France and New Netherland
100
This sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches.
What is Reformation?
100
This Italian Sailor was sent by England to look for the northern sea route to Asia in 1497, but instead landed on the coast of the present day Newfoundland.
Who is John Cabot?
100
These farmers paid rent and worked for a set period each year for their lord and then worked the rest of the year for themselves and family.
What are Tenant Farmers?
200
This form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
200
This French sailor sailed up the St. Lawrence River, hoping it would lead to the the Pacific Ocean, but instead discovered Mont-Royal.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
200
This nation's trappers and missionaries lived among the Native Americans, learned their languages, and respected their ways.
What is France?
300
These two countries worked to spread Catholicism among the Native Americans.
Who are the Spanish and the French?
300
This Italian explorer was sent by the French to look for the Northwest Passage. He instead explored the coast of North America from present-day Nova Scotia down to the Carolinas.
Who is Giovanni de Verranzano?
300
New France was made up of estates along this river.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
400
This German Priest nailed a list of complaints on the door of a local Catholic Church, questioning the power and authority of Catholic leaders-including the pope, the head of the Catholic Church. He started the Protestant Reformation and a widespread conflict within the nations of Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
This English explorer hired by the French tried to find the Northwest Passage, but instead sailed north along the present-day Hudson river and then found the Hudson Bay in the following year.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
In 1621 the Netherlands created the Dutch West India Company to to run its trade between these continents.
What is North America and Africa?
500
Men given this certain title are known for being the head of the Catholic Church.
What is a Pope?
500
Hudson sailed on this ship when looking for the Northwest Passage.
What is the Half Moon?
500
In 1626 Governor Peter Minuit bought this island from the Manhattoes People for 60 Dutch Guilders($24) worth of trade goods.
What is Manhattan Island?
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