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Jude 5th - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: France in the New World
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| King Francis I | king of France |
| King Charles I | king of Spain |
| Giovani de Verrazano | sent to America to find a northwest passage and sailed northward on the coastline |
| Jacques Cartier | French privateer sent to America to find the northwest passage and tried to start a colony |
| Samuel de Champlain | established a settlement in Quebec and explored the St. Lawrence River |
| Huron and Algonquin | two big and powerful Native American allied tribes |
| Iroquois Confederacy | league of five Native American tribes |
| Hugenots | name for French Protestants |
| Great Lakes | Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior |
| Fr. Isaac Jogues | French Jesuit priest who served the Huron people, got his fingers bit off, head chopped off, and was the first North American martyr |
| Fr. Jean de Brebeuf | French Jesuit priest who served the Huron, killed by Iroquois when they cut his heart out and ate it |
| blackrobes | Native name for French Jesuit priests who wore black cassocks |
| Fr. Charles Garnier | French Jesuit priest who served the Tobacco people, who was killed by Iroquois while giving a blessing to a dying man |
| St. Kateri Tekakwitha | Mohawk Native girl who converted to Christianity and suffered greatly because of it, and was called "Lily of the Mohawks" |
| Louis Joliet | French explorer who explored Lake Michigan, the Midwest, and the Mississippi River with Fr. Marquette |
| Fr. Jacques Marquette | French priest and explorer who explored Lake Michigan, the Midwest, and the Mississippi River with Joliet |
| King Louis XIV | French king who wanted the great river explored and hoped it led to the Pacific Ocean |
| Illinois Natives | friendly Natives whom Joliet and Marquette encountered |
| Robert de La Salle | French explorer who explored the Mississippi River and claimed lands along it for France |
| Louisiana | lands along the Mississippi River claimed for France and King Louis XIV |
| New Orleans | city that would one day be the "Paris of the New World" that La Salle hoped for |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer hired by the Dutch to find a faster route to the Indies and who accidentally explored the Hudson Bay and Hudson River |