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| 128577323 | Giovanni da Verrazzano | 1524, Italian in the service of France discovered what is today New York Harbor | 0 | |
| 128577324 | Jacques Cartier | Frenchman who reached the eastern coast of Canada in 1534 and discovered the St. Lawrence River | 1 | |
| 128577325 | Samuel de Champlain | Frenchman who laid claim to a region of Canada in 1608 he called Quebec | 2 | |
| 128577326 | Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet | Frenchmen who explored the Great Lakes in 1673 | 3 | |
| 128577327 | Sieur de La Salle | Frenchman who explored the lower Mississippi in 1683 and named it Louisiana in honor of the French king, Louis XIV | 4 | |
| 128577328 | New France | the region of N. America that France eventually named its' colonial empire | 5 | |
| 128577329 | Jamestown | first permanent successful English settlement founded in 1607 in N. America | 6 | |
| 128577330 | John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; said to have been saved by Pocahontas | 7 | |
| 128577331 | Pilgrims | colonists who left England and founded a second English colony in Massachusetts in 1620 | 8 | |
| 128577332 | Puritans | colonists from England who sought religious freedom by est. themselves in N. America | 9 | |
| 128577333 | Henry Hudson | an Englishman in the service of the Netherlands who discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait in 1609 | 10 | |
| 128577334 | Duke of York | brother of English king, Charles II who drove out the Dutch in 1644 @ New Netherland and renamed it New York | 11 | |
| 128577335 | French and Indian War | a conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in N. America lasting from 1754-1763 | 12 | |
| 128577336 | Original 13 Colonies | the thirteen British colonies in N. America that joined together to form the original states of the US | 13 | |
| 128577337 | King Phillip's War | one of the bloodiest battles fought in 1675 between the colonists and Native Americans throughout Massachusetts. | 14 | |
| 128577338 | Columbian Exchange | the transfer of foods, plants, and animals during hte colonization of the Americas | 15 | |
| 128577339 | Atlantic Slave Trade | the buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas | 16 | |
| 128577340 | Mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by selling more goods than they bought | 17 | |
| 128577341 | Triangular Trade | the trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, the West Indies, and colonies of N. America | 18 | |
| 128577342 | Middle Passage | the voyage that brought captured Africans the Americas- so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade | 19 | |
| 128577343 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit | 20 |
