Term | Definition |
Northwest Passage | a shortcut by water that Europeans wanted to find to link the Atlantic to the Pacific |
John Cabot | Italian explorer who sailed for England to find NW Passage-found great fishing off coast of Newfoundland |
Giovanni de Verrazano | sailed for France to find NW Passage but found Hudson River |
merchant company | group of business people who share the costs of a trading voyage to make a profit |
Henry Hudson | English sea captain hired by the Dutch East India Company to find the NW Passage |
70 miles wide | How wide Hudson believed North America was |
Hudson Bay | where Hudson was traveling but thought he was traveling across North America |
Jacques Cartier | Frenchman who claimed a peninsula near the St. Lawrence River for France- called it Canada |
Samuel de Champlain | sent by the French after Cartier and made governor of New France- set up a fur-trading post in Quebec |
allies | people who work together towards a common goal |
Iroquois | group of Native Americans who fought against Champlain |
voyageurs | fur trappers who received permits for trapping from the French leaders |
Why was the growth of New France slow? | many non-Catholics settled in English colonies for more religious freedom |
Brule | a young Frenchman who first explored four of the Great Lakes and lived among the Native Americans |
Nicolet | French explorer who found Lake Michigan and lived among the Native Americans |
English colonies | non-Catholics joined these because the King of France only allowed Catholics |