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A share of profits received by a stockholder
What is a dividend?
shares of a company
What is stock?
Thorvalid Erikson called the place from Newfoundland to Massachusetts this during the 10th and 11th century
What is Vinland (land of wine)?
These were founded in 1607
What are the colonies of Jamestown and Popham?
This French priest settled the Saint Sauveur mission on the land the English had abandoned and was ultimately kicked out by the English from Jamestown.
Who is Father Pierre Biard?
a folk tale
What is a saga?
the quality of being logically sound
He wanted to be the first person to start a colony in America. He was swallowed by the sea after saying "We are as near heaven by sea as by land".
Who is Sir Humphrey Gilbert?
People in western Europe wanted to trade lumber, furs, and woolen cloth for spices, jewels and silk in these countries.
What are India, China and Japan?
This happened after Estevan Gomez could not find the Northwest Passage through Maine Harbors
What is Spain stopped trying to settle in New England?
A mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
A disease caused by lack of Vitamin C
What is scurvy?
He named the area between New Haven, Connecticut and the Penobscot River in Maine, New England in 1616
Who is Captain John Smith?
This was the first English made ship in North America. It was built at the Popham Colony's Ft St. George in 1607-1608
What is the Virginia?
Bartholomew Gosnold explored the Maine coast, seeking a suitable location for a British Colony in this year.
What is 1602?
A company in which people invest money in exchange for stock
What is a joint stock company?
to go around
What is circumnavigate?
These were the three ships that sailed with Columbus on his historic voyage
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
The Wabanaki went through plenty of the change when the Europeans started exploring the "New World" but the most disastrous of all was this.
What is disease?
This is where the London Company went?
What is south to Jamestown?
a raised roadway across a body of water
An agreement that grants rights to another person or group
What is a charter?
He founded Quebec in 1608 and was the first European to see Lake Champlain.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This happened after the death of Sir George Popham and Sir Humphrey Gilbert knowing the colony wouldn't survive the winter.
What is they went home to England?
Occurring between 1616 and 1619, this era in time consisted of 70-90% of the Native population dying from European disease.
What is the dying period?