| A | B |
| To find an all water route across North America | Why did France and the Netherlands send explorers to America's? |
| By feeding them fresh vegetables | How did Champlain keep his settlers from dying of scurvy? |
| Farming the lands they rented from large landowners | how did the tenant farmers earn a living in the 1600's? |
| To win friendship with the Algonquins | Why did Champlain attack the Iroquois? |
| Because the fur trade was so profitable | Why did the Dutch want to claim the Hudson Valley? |
| Wealthy Dutchmen who paid the settlers' passage to New Netherlands | Who were patroons? |
| To control the harbor at Manhattan Island | Why did the English want to take over New Netherland? |
| They were tired of Stuyvesant's harsh rule | Why did the settlers give up New Amsterdam without a fight? |
| Cartier | Who explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River from 1534-1535? |
| Champlain | Who explored the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, and Lake Huron from 1608-1609? |
| Marquette and Joliet | Who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River in 1673? |
| La Salle | Who explored the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico in 1682? |
| Farming and fur trading | How were the French and Dutch alike in what they did for a living? |
| Problems with Indians | How were the French and Dutch Colonies alike in the difficulties they had? |