Section 4: Colonizing America

Question 0

Henry Hudson

Answer 0

1609: sailed for the Dutch up the Hudson River 150 miles

Question 1

Jacques Cartier

Answer 1

1530: French sailor up the St. Lawrence river

Question 2

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 2

Founder of New France

Question 3

Coureur de bios

Answer 3

People who worked in the woods “runners of the woods”

Question 4

Jacques Marquette

Answer 4

1673: father of a French missionary, set out with the Indians and traders to reach the Mississippi

Question 5

Robert de La Salle

Answer 5

1682: an explorer who completed the journey to the Gulf of Mexico, he named Louisiana.

Question 6

Peter Minuit

Answer 6

1626: bought the manhattan island from the Indians at the mouth of the Hudson River. He called it new Amsterdam

Question 7

New Netherland

Answer 7

Dutch settled more farther up the Hudson River and named the colony.

Question 8

Algonquin

Answer 8

The type of Indians that helped the French in their feud with the Dutch.

Question 9

Northwest passage

Answer 9

A waterway through or around North America

Question 10

Protestant reformation

Answer 10

The movement of the Protestants that followed Martin Luther.

Question 11

Missionary

Answer 11

People determined to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.