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The Italian explorer sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain in hopes of reaching Asia by sailing west.
Columbus
He founded the city of St. Augustine and later visited Safety Harbor and met with the Tocobaga.
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
French Fur trappers
Coureurs des Bois
The first English child born in North America.
The slave preacher that led a revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831.
Nat Turner
The peaceful inhabitants on the island of San Salvador that Columbus met in 1492.
Taino
The French explorer that discovered today's Canada in 1534 and claimed the land for France.
Jacques Cartier
The French explorer that found the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed it for France.
Rober Caliver de La Salle
The English governor of Roanoke that returned to find all the colonists had vanished.
John Smith
An agreement by Conorees in 1836 to table all discussions and debate regarding Slavery.
Gag Rule
The arrival of Columbus in 1492 ushered in this unheard of transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
Colombian Exchange
This country hauled gold and silver taken from their colonies in South America back to Europe during the 16th century.
Spain
The Indian tribe the French worked closely with.
Huron
The word that Governor White found carved into a wood post when he returned in 1590.
Croatian
An 1846 provision issued by at Pennsylvania representative that called into question the reinstitution of slavery in the lands gained as a result of the Mexican War.
Wilmot Proviso
The city founded in 1565 to protect La Florida and the treasure ships returning to Spain.
La Florida
What the French discovered in North America that was almost as valuable as gold.
Beaver Fur
The Venetian explorer who landed in Newfoundland in 1497 and claimed all of North America for England.
John Cabot
The territory west of Mississippi and north of the Ohio River that attempted to join the Union in 1819 as a slave state.
Missouri
The state admitted to the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850.
California
Europeans exploited this ethnic group once it was determined that Native Americans didn't make suitable slaves on sugar plantations.
West Africans
The river explored in 1673 by Father Marquette and Louis Joliet.
Mississippi River
This Englishman sponsored a colony on the Atlantic coast of North America that mysteriously disappeared by 1590.
Sir Walter Raleigh
The free state that joined the Union as part of the Compromise of 1820.
Maine
The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia as part of this compromise.
Compomise of 1850