North American Explorers

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  1. 5. Present day country where Cabot and Norsemen explored first.
  2. 7. Cash crop that helped Jamestown to succeed as the first English colony in the new world.
  3. 8. Sailing for England, this Italian reached continental North America in 1497.
  4. 11. This trade is how the French succeeded financially in the New World.
  5. 12. Of the most devastating diseases to humanity, high fever with pustules all over body.
  6. 14. This was the first country to explore the New World.
  7. 15. The native americans had high fatality rates from European diseases because they lacked this.
  8. 16. This English colony mysteriously disappeared in 1587.
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  1. 1. Number of English Colonies in the New World.
  2. 2. First permanent French Settlement in the New World, founded in 1607.
  3. 3. Land claimed by LaSalle in the Miss. River Basin named after Louis XIV.
  4. 4. Island where Columbus landed in 1492.
  5. 6. This was a direct route to Asia through the New World.
  6. 9. Religion that the natives were converted to by the French and Spanish.
  7. 10. These people explored an area of North America they called Vinland around the year 1000.
  8. 13. French explorer that first mapped the St. Lawrence River.