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