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| Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish priest who introduced African slavery to the America's |
| disease | cause for most of the deaths of Native Americans |
| St.Augustine | Oldest European settlement in North America |
| Port Royal and Quebec | First french settlements in North America founded by Samuel de Champlain |
| coureurs de bois | "runners of the woods" (French) |
| "Father of the Waters" | Mississippi River |
| Marquette and Joliet | Frenchmen who explored the Great Lakes,and the Mississippi river |
| Robert de La Salle | Frenchman who claimed the entire Mississippi Valley for France |
| Peter Minuit | Dutchman(Netherlands) who bought Manhatten Island from Native Americans |
| Roanoke | first English effort to colonize North America in 1585. Colonists disappeared |
| joint stock company | English businessmen who raised money to supply explorations in the New World while hoping to make a profit |
| House of Burgesses | This marked the beginning of representative government in the English colonies |
| Magna Carta | This 1215 document marked the beginning of representative government in England |
| Mayflower Compact | Document signed by 41 Pilgrims of Plymouth in 1620 |
