| A | B |
|---|
| Samuel Champlain | Geographer,mapmaker,and sailor who founded the colonies at Port Royal and Quebec |
| coureurs de bois | French for "runners of the woods" |
| Jacques Marquette | French missionary in 1600's |
| Louis Joliet | French fur trader who with Marquette set out on a 700 mile journey down the Mississippi River. |
| Robert de La Salle | French explorer who claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France and called it Louisiana. |
| How France protected its territory in N. America | a series of forts along the Mississippi and Great Lakes |
| Why French farming efforts were not successful | More French trapped and fish because it was more profitable |
| New Netherland | Dutch settlement in present-day New York |
| Peter Minuit | In a famous bargain,he bought Manhatten Island from local Indians and called it New Amsterdam |
| New Sweden | Swedish colony along the Delaware River in present-day Wilmington |
| Dutch influence | customs such as St Nicholas's birthday (aka Santa Claus) and words like boss, cookies, yacht and spook. |
| impact on Native Americans | European diseases killed thousands and alcohol sold by Europeans had a terrible effect |
| Ecological impact on North America | beaver hunted to extinction in New York |
| Wall Street | Had its beginnings in New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony, over 300 years ago. |
| Mississippi River | Known as the "Father of the Waters" |
| French relations with Native Americans | They intermarried, learned skills such as making canoes and snowshoes and were taught how to trap animals |
| Goal of Marquette and Joliet | To find a new passage to Asia-which they did not |
| New France | Port Royal and Quebec were the first settlements in this area of North America |
| Algonquin | Indian allies of the French |
| Iroquois | Indian allies of the Dutch |
