APWH P2 Day 8 - French, English, and Dutch Exploration/Colonies

A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska

• Straits of Gibraltar

• St. Lawrence River

• Hudson River

• Northwest Passage

French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608

• New France

• France the Second

• French de la Petit

• Newfoundland

French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec

• Henry Hudson

• Samuel de Champlain

• Jaques Cartier

• John Cabot

First permanent French settlement in North America and founded by Samuel de Champlain

• Jamestown

• New France

• Quebec

• Newfoundland

Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland

• John Cabot

• Samuel de Champlain

• Henry Hudson

• Christopher Columbus

An English explorer who explored for the Dutch and claimed the Hudson River around present day New York, calling it New Netherland

• Henry Hudson

• John Cabot

• John Calhoun

• James Fisher

Businesses formed by groups of people who, together, make an investment and share in the profits and losses were know as (a)   stock companies.

These companies, made up of group of investors, bought the right to establish settlements in the New World from the king and invested in the ships and supplies needed to establish the settlements

• joint stock companies

• corporations

• limited liability ventures

• economic monopolies

A form of business ownership in which the owners are only responsible up to the amount of their individual investments

• corporation

• economic liability

• joint stock

• limited liability