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| New France | Name given to the land claimed by the French in North America; included present-day Canada and much land around the Mississippi River |
| Armada | Spanish word for a large fleet of ships |
| cape | a strip of land that stretches into a body of water |
| cash crop | a crop that people grow and sell to earn money |
| Robert La Salle | French explorer who explored the Mississippi River and claimed it and all the land around it for France; named the region he explored Louisiana |
| charter | a document that gives certain freedoms to a person or group |
| claim | something declared as one's own, especially a piece of land |
| indentured servant | someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for a trip to America |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer; founded Quebec as a fur-trading post; led fur traders and the Huron and Algonquin Indians in fights against the Iroquois Indians |
| invest | to put money into something to try to make more money |
| stock | a share of ownership in a company |
| pilgrim | a person who makes a long journey for religious reasons |
