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Social Studies #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer who sailed up the St. Lawrence River and began a fur-trading business with the Hurons. Looking for NW Passage-didn’t find. Located Canada. |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who founded the first settlement at Quebec. Mapped places where beavers lived. Cartographer. Starts settlements Quebec & Montreal. Explores St. Lawrence River. |
| Sieur de La Salle | French explorer who found the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole Mississippi Valley for France. |
| Jacques Marquette | Catholic missionary who knew several Indian languages. With Joliet, he explored lakes and rivers for France. |
| Louis Joliet | French fur trader who explored lakes and rivers for France, with Marquette and five others. |
| Henry Hudson | Dutch explorer who sailed up the Hudson River, giving the Dutch a claim to the area. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer who used his own money to set up Englands first colony in North America, on Roanoke Island near North Carolina. |
| John Smith | English explorer who, as leader of the Jamestown settlement, saved its people from starvation. |
| Squanto (Tisquantum) | Native American who spoke English and who helped the Plymouth colony. |
| Portage | The carrying of canoes and supplies around waterfalls and rapids or overland between rivers. |
| Proprietary Colony | A colony that was owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a king or a queen. |
| Proprietor | An owner. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement by those on the Mayflower to make and obey laws for their colony. This was the first example of self-ruled by American colonists. |
| Interpreter | A person who translates from one language to another. |
| St. Lawrence River | A river in North America. Begins at Lake Ontario and flows into the Atlantic Ocean; forms part of the border between the U.S. and Canada. |
| Quebec | The capital of the province of Quebec, Canada, located on the Northern side of the St. Lawrence River; the first successful French settlement in the America’s; established in 1608. Founded by Champlain. Used as a trading post. |
| Montreal | The largest city in present-day Canada; located in Southern Quebec, on Montreal Island at the North bank of the St. Lawrence River. Founded by Champlain. Used as a trading post. |
| Mississippi River | The longest river in the U.S., located centrally, its source is Lake Itasca in Minnesota, flows South into the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Hudson River | A river in the Northeastern U.S. beginning in the upper New York and flowing into the Atlantic Ocean; named for the explorer Henry Hudson. |
| New Amsterdam | A Dutch city on Manhattan Islands that later became New York City. |
| Roanoke | An island near the coast of North Carolina; the site of the Lost Colony. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in the Americas; located in Eastern Virginia, on the shore of the James River. |
| Plymouth | A town in Southeastern Massachusetts, on Plymouth Bay; site of the first settlement built by the pilgrims, who sailed on the Mayflower. |
| Northwest Passage | A water route that explorers wanted to find so that explorers could cut through North America. |
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