France in North America

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France in North America
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Early North America Exploration
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French Bridge to the New WorldJacques
CartierSamuel de Champlain
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Jacques Cartier (1534-1536)
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Samuel de Champlain
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Settlements 16th Century
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New France - 1750

• Fewer than 20,000 people of French background
  scattered across North America from Newfoundland
  to the Mississippi
• Pattern of distribution set by cod fishery and
  fur trade
• Maritime activity was coastal European, little
  contact and static
• Fur trade riverine, expansive and static --
  all traders relied on native labor and delivery,
  moved furs to Montreal, and thence to France

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Exploration of the USA
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North America - 1682
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North America -1713
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North America - 1763
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