Chapter 20- The Atlantic World Flashcards

vocab. quiz FRIDAY!

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