| A | B |
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| NW passage | a waterway through or around North America |
| Protestant Reformation | a movement against the Catholic Church, divided Europe |
| missionary | person who tries to spread certain religious beliefs among a group of people |
| Cartier | explored the St. Lawrence river 1530's sail for French |
| Hudson | Sailed up Hudson River (150 miles)for Dutch |
| Champlain | founded the first permanent French settlements in New France; built trading post Quebec |
| coureur de bois | phrase meaning runner of the woods; trapper or trader in New France |
| Algonquin | indians that helped the French with the fur trade rivals |
| Marquette | French missionary & fur trader, traveled 700 miles of the Mississippi River |
| LaSalle | explorer completed the journey on Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico 1682 named region Louisiana |
| Minuit | led Dutch settlers to mouth of Hudson River bought Manhattan Island from local natives |
| New Netherlands | dutch colonists settlement on the Hudson River |
