He explored St. Lawrence River in the 1530s — what is now known as Canada (New France).
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Samuel de Champlain
He colonized Canada in the 1600s.
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Samuel de Champlain
Father of New France
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Huguenots
The king forbade Protestant ___ from moving to New France.
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Mississippi
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet discovered the upper _________ River.
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Robert La Salle
He built forts along the Mississippi River and Great Lakes to claim the Mississippi River Valley for France.
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Iroquois Confederacy
With the notable exception of the _______, most Native American tribes allied with the French in their wars with the British in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Henry Hudson
In 1609, he explored the Hudson River.
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Henry Hudson
He established the *first Dutch trading posts* in Manhattan and Albany.
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New Amsterdam
In 1625, Manhattan became *__________*.
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New York
In 1664, ___________ was born when New Amsterdam surrendered to an English fleet.
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Church of England
The _________ became the state church of England during the 16th-century English Reformation.
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English Puritans
who followed Calvin's more radical Protestantism, hated the Church of England's Catholic tendencies.
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Separatists
They were Calvinists who rejected the Church of England.
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London Company
In 1606, King James I granted the _________ a charter to colonize North America.
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Jamestown
In 1607, _______ was founded by a London Company expedition.
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Starving Time
Jamestown was swampy and unhealthy, and disease and the adventurers' distaste for agriculture caused the _______, which killed almost two-thirds of the population.
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Captain John Smith
The struggling colony of Jamestown was only saved by _______‘s leadership.
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Pocahontas
At one point, Smith was captured by the Powhatans and later claimed that he had been saved from execution by ________, the daughter of the chief.
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John Rolfe
Pocahontas later married ________, one of the ablest English settlers.
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tobacco
Rolfe's systematization of ________ cultivation shaped Virginia's history.
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William Bradford
In 1620, a group of Separatists, led by ______, set sail on the Mayflower — the Pilgrims.
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Mayflower Compact
Before landing at Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrim men drafted and signed the ______, which established a representative government for the new colony.
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Samoset and Squanto
They helped the Pilgrims' Plymouth colony become self-sufficient.
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John Winthrop
He called America a "city upon a hill" where they hoped to build a godly commonwealth.
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**General Court**
Most colonists were Puritans, and only freemen who belonged to a Puritan congregation could vote. The elected legislature was called the ___________.
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Anne Hutchinson
She challenged most of the colony's ministers' teaching authority by believing she and others could receive direct revelations from the Holy Spirit.
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Roger Williams
He was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing religion. He settled in Rhode Island, a theologically freer colony.
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Connecticut
Thomas Hooker and John Davenport founded settlements that became ________.
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Calverts
In 1632, King Charles I granted the ____ a charter to found Maryland.
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Carolina
In the 1660s, King Charles II gave ________, which later split into North and South Carolina, to a group of wealthy people.
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Puritans
group of religious dissidents who came to the New World so they would have a location to establish a “purer” church than the one that existed in England.
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Separatists
religious group that also opposed the Church of England; this group first went to Holland, and then some went on to the Americas.
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Indentured servants
individuals who exchanged compulsory service for free passage to the American colonies.
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1534–1535
French adventurers explore the St. Lawrence River
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1607
The English settle in Jamestown
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1619
Virginia establishes House of Burgesses (first colonial legislature)
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1620
Plymouth colony founded
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1629
Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
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1634
Maryland colony founded
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1636
Roger Williams expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony and settles in Providence, Rhode Island; Connecticut founded by John Hooker
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1642
City of Montreal founded by the French
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The French
Which colonists enjoyed the best relations with the Native Americans?
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William Bradford
Who of the following was not a religious dissenter in Massachusetts Bay?
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Maryland
A colony designated as a refuge for English Catholics was…
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