New France Explorers
This Italian sailing for France discovered New York Harbor in 1524.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
England's first permanent North American settlement, founded in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
Henry Hudson explored this river, where the Dutch founded New Amsterdam.
What is the Hudson River?
This treaty was a land agreement between Spain and Portugal, leaving other Europeans out.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
French and Dutch were cooperative with Native Americans due to this common interest.
What is the fur trade?
This French sailor discovered the St. Lawrence Seaway and named Mount Royal (Montreal) in 1534.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
In 1607, King James chartered 3 ships carrying more than 100 settlers here.
What is Jamestown, VA?
The Dutch colony that became New York after English takeover.
What is New Netherland (or New Amsterdam)?
After no Northwest Passage was found, these three nations colonized North America.
What are France, England, and the Dutch?
English settlers seized Native land for this crop and viewed them as heathens.
What is tobacco?
This French sailor founded Quebec in 1608 as the base for New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This crop had high demand in England and made money to save Jamestown after 7/10 settlers died.
What is tobacco?
The Dutch started fur trading here with the Iroquois Indians.
What is New Netherland?
This 1754 war in the Ohio Valley was part of the larger Seven Years' War; England won.
What is the French and Indian War?
In 1622, this tribe killed ~350 Jamestown settlers; English massacred in response.
What is the Powhatan?
This priest and explorer, with Louis Joliet, explored the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi in 1673.
Who is Jacques Marquette?
In 1620, the Pilgrims founded the second English colony here, seeking religious freedom.
What is Plymouth Rock (Massachusetts)?
This company colonized New Netherland but attracted few Dutch, opening to Germans, French, and Scandinavians.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
France's North American empire was immense but this, due to priests and fur traders.
What is sparsely populated?
In 1675, this Native ruler (Metacom) attacked Massachusetts villages; hundreds died before English won.
What is King Philip’s War?
This explorer claimed the lower Mississippi River Valley for France and named it Louisiana after King Louis XIV.
Who is Sieur de La Salle?
These people sought freedom from England's Anglican Church and succeeded in Massachusetts Bay due to numerous families.
Who are the Puritans?
In 1664, King Charles II let his brother (Duke of York) take this from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
These Caribbean islands were controlled by the French for cotton and sugar plantations using enslaved Africans.
What are Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique?
European diseases wiped out tribes, causing labor shortages that led settlers to this.
What is African slave labor?