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The Settlement of North America
North America
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Social Studies
5th Grade
09/21/2015

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Northwest Passage
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explorers were looking for this water route through North America to Asia
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profit
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the amount of money that remains after the costs of a business have been paid
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portage
Definition
land route from one body of water to another
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John Cabot
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Italian explorer sent by the King of England to find the Northwest Passage; discovered a valuable fishing area called the Grand Banks
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Italian explorer sent by the King of France to find the Northwest Passage; entrance of New York Harbor is named after him
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Henry Hudson
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English captain hired by Dutch East India Company to find Northwest Passage; discovered the Hudson River
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Jacque Cartier
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French explorer searching for Northwest Passage; discovered the St. Lawrence River
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Samuel de Champlain
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French explorer who founded a trading post named Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America; made friend with local Native Americans, the Hurons
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Jacque Marquette & Louis Jolliet
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Discovered the Mississippi River while working together to find the Northwest Passage
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