French Colonization of N. America

An Oral PresentationBy

Jonathan JinDong Eun ?Dan Zhang

•Driving forces:•State•Church•Etc.

•Motives:•Search for:

•Market – fur•Land settlement/trading posts•Raw materials•Investments•Cheap labor

•Mission Civilisatrice•“White Man’s Burden”•Implant Roman Catholicism and French culture into the minds of the “savages”

•Interested commercially, not politically

•Unlike British rivals

Jacques CartierDiscovered Canada

Samuel de Champlain“The Father of New France”

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

Claimed the Mississippi region of N. America

•1st guy to discover & document Canada

•1534•“Kanata”

•Huron-Iroquois: “village”•Searched for “Northwest Passage”

•Passage through/around N. America to E. Asia

•Only claimed Baie de Gaspé region•Further French colonization occurred later

•Aided Sieur de Robervall in his attempt to colonize Canada in 1541

•That FAILED

•“The Father of New France”•Sailed for West Indies in 1599•Spent next 2.5 years visiting islands•First trip to N. America: 1603•Founded:•Port-Royal (in Canada)(1605)•Quebec City (1608)•Opened N. America to French trade

•Explored (1679-1682):•Great Lakes•Midwest•Claimed entire Mississippi region for France; called it Louisiana•1684-1687: Expedition to:•Southern end of Mississippi R.•Gulf of Mexico

•Utter failure of an expedition

•Sick men•Deserted men•Rene-Robert assassinated in 1687…by his own men.

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