| A | B |
|---|
| John Cabot | explored newfoundland and noted the fish and trees in the areas |
| Forbisher | discovered Inuit on Baffin Island |
| Humphrey Gilbert | envisioned colonizing America as a base for pirates or sea dogs |
| Walter Raleigh | sponsored settlement on Roanoke Island |
| Sir Francis Drake | circumnavigaed the globe and pirated ships |
| John Davis | searched for the Northwest Passage |
| Henry Hudson | met Mohawks and discovered Manhattan insland |
| William Baffin | decided there was no Northwest Passage |
| Varrazzano | discovered New York Bay |
| Cartier | set up fur trade and tried to settle charlesbourg Royal Colony |
| De La Salle | claimed Mississippi floodplains and was killed by his colonists |
| James Watt | invented high pressure cylinders |
| Boyle | did atmospheric pressure tests |
| John McAdams | built roads out of macadamization or compacted stone |
| Newcomen | used steam engines to pump water out of coal mines |
| Zebulon Pike | surveyed the southwest and was imprisoned in Mexico |
| Lewis and Clark | Jefferson's secretary and an army officer who surveyed the north |
| Natchez Trace | from Mississippi to Tennessee it was used to transport military supplies |
| Great Wagon Road | from Pennsylvania to Georgia it was used for cargo and followed the Indians' Great Warrior Path |
| National Road | Cumberland, Maryland to West Virgina- followed Nemacolin's Path |
