| A | B |
|---|
| Northwest Passage | waterway along the north coast of North Am. connecting the Atlantc and Pacific |
| estuary | wide mouth of a river where the ocean tide flows in. |
| rapids | fast-moving water |
| company | business |
| mutinied | rebelled |
| Dauphine | In 1524 Giovanni da Varrazano set sail for America on this ship. |
| This was a narrow strip of land that lay between the Atlantic Ocean and what Verrazano thought was the Pacific Ocean | Pamlico Sound |
| Verrazano landed on the north end of present-day ____. | Staten Island |
| He sent Jacques Cartier to North America to search for gold and other valuables. | King Frances I |
| This explorer's ship sailed up the estuary of the St. Lawrence River. | Cartier |
| During his expedition, Cartier was told by these people of jewels and metals that could be found northwest of Gaspe Peninsula. | Iroquois |
| Who sailed by way of the Arctic Ocean in search of the Northwest Passage? | Henry Hudson |
| They gave Hudson a ship for his third voyage, his last attempt to find the Northwest Passage. | Dutch East India Co. |
