Daily Comment Card 1454 1512 1500 s1700 s

Daily Comment & Card 1454 -1512 1500 s-1700 s AMERIGO VESPUCCI -Italian MERCANTILISM on Portuguese expedition -Explored South America -led to suggestion that “New World” had been discovered -After account published, cartographer named the continent America thinking that his expedition had landed before Columbus -Economic philosophy of 1600 that colonies existed to serve mother country -believed one nation’s gain was another’s loss -goal: export more than import in trade (have gold & silver) -believed in Government regulation SONGS FOR THE DAY: SAIL ON “No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read. ” -DAVID MCCULLOUGH

STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -Identify major French explorers and their claims for France -Compare the relationships with the natives of the French and the Spanish -Evaluate the French legacy in the New World

FRENCH EXPLORERS GIOVANNI DA VERRAZANO- (Italian) New York Harbor (looking for Northwest Passage) JACQUES CARTIER- St. Lawrence River (Montreal) SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN-“Father of New France” first permanent French Colony (Quebec-1608) Jacques Marquett & Louis Joliet-Mississippi River (1673) ROBERT CAVALIER DE LA SALLE-sailed Mississippi into Gulf of Mexico, named Louisiana for KING LOUIS XIV 1/4

Claimed-Canada, Great Lakes, Mississippi River (LA) -used river as natural highway to North America -concerned with FUR TRADE and set up trading posts throughout territory -set up Indian missions (scattered, isolated) ONLY CATHOLICS COULD MIGRATE TO NEW WORLD FRENCH PROTESTANTS (HUGUENOTS) BARRED FROM FRENCH COLONIES, THEY COULD SETTLE WITH ENGLISH 2/4

Relations with natives— (unlike English) §clear out forests §drive out animals §take land away USUALLY FRENCH RELATIONSHIP WITH NATIVES BETTER THAN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES §Fur Traders lived with/ married with natives 3/4 §Spanish used natives as work force and nearly exterminated them through work & disease

FRENCH LEGACY? v. RELIGION Spread through mission systems (Mississippi, Canada) v. CUSTOMS/LANGUAGE Areas settled spoke French (Quebec still today) French mixed into languages spoken in Louisiana v. GEOGRAPHIC TERMS 4/4

COLONIZATION IN THE NEW WORLD SPANISH FRENCH WERE THERE RULES AS TO WHO COULD SETTLE? HOW DID THEY TREAT THE NATIVES? WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSIP TO THE “MOTHER COUNTRY? WHERE DID THEY SETTLE? WHAT WAS THE LEGACY OF COLONIZATION?