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