In 1534, France sent Jacques Cartier to
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In 1534, France sent Jacques Cartier to search for a Northwest Passage. He claimed what is now Canada, for France.
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The conditions were harsh. The winters were extremely cold.
Few French citizens wanted to settle in this land, little suited for farming.
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All fertile land, suitable for farming was reserved forthe French nobility. Harsh winters and short growing seasons discouraged the French from settling along the St. Lawrence river.
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Trade rifle, powder horn, beaver pelt, and beaver skin hat.
The hardy French trappers had a market in Europe for beaver skins.
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French trappers called themselves coureurs de bois – “wood rangers”
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Unlike the Spanish, the French trappers made Native Americans
their business partners. They lived with them and inter-married.
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In 1673 over-trapped beaver caused the French to travel down the Mississippi in search for furs.
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Canadian Lynx
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The Huron taught the French how to survive in the wilderness. The French helped them in battle against their enemy, the Iroquois.
Samuel de Champlain
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Disease decimatedthe Native Americanpopulation. The population decreased from 40,000 to 12,000 by 1634. Jesuit Missionaries wereblamed.
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Father Marquette and Louis Joliet thought the Mississippi may be the long sought Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Instead, it took them to the Gulf of Mexico.
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In 1682 Robert de La Salle planted a French flag at the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed everything west of the Mississippi for King Louis XIV of France. The land became known as Louisiana.
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