Colonization by French and Dutch New World French

Colonization by French and Dutch New World

• French settle Quebec (1608) & Montreal (1642) and what would become Canada • Control St. Lawrence River & access to interior of North America • Develop a fur trade • Coureurs du bois

Explorers Sailing For France • Cartier - France - Reached St. Lawrence River - Claimed Eastern Canada for France – 1535 • Samuel de Champlain - France - “Father of New France” - Established Quebec (the 1 st permanent French colony in N. America) - Established settlements and explored Maine, Montreal & Nova Scotia - 1608

New France (cont. ) • French colonial empire • Quebec, administrative center • Canada to New Orleans • Intermarried with Indians • Formed alliances with Indians rather than conquering • Missionaries learn about Indian customs

New Netherland • United Provinces and a global commercial empire • Dutch East India Company / Dutch West India Company • Dutch established settlements • Albany (1609) and Manhattan Island. • 1637: Dutch conquered Swedish settlements in Delaware River

Explorers Sailing For The Netherlands • Henry Hudson - English sailing for the Dutch - Searching for • Northwest Passage - Claimed Hudson River - Settlers • established New Netherlands (New York) – 1609 • Iroquois—middlemen of the fur trade with the Dutch • Iroquois attacks on Hurons • Challenge of French control of Great Lakes fur trade