Explorers Accomplishments French Samuel de Champlain Louis Joliet

Explorers & Accomplishments

French Samuel de Champlain Louis Joliet Jacques Marquette Robert Cavelier de La Salle

Dutch Henry Hudson

English Sir Walter Raleigh John White Prince Henry John Cabot Henry Hudson Jacques Cartier

French Accomplishments Accepted Native American ways & converted them to Catholicism Set up trading posts and built forts to protect their trade Followed the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Named it Louisiana and claimed land for Louis XIV

More French Accomplishments Traveled the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers Claimed the Mississippi Valley for France Named Lake Champlain, Father of new France Explored and mapped Lake Ontario and Lake Huron Established Quebec

Dutch Accomplishments Created the Dutch West India Company Took control of Dutch colony and called it NEW NETHERLAND Starter settlement of New Amsterdam (Manhattan Island) Tip of Manhattan Peter Minuit bought it for 60 Dutch guilders (about $24 worth of trade goods) Claimed North American Coast for the Dutch Netherlands is: Small Country not many natural resources

English Accomplishments Landed in Virginia and North Carolina Named it Virginia Settled Roanoke Virginia Dare was the first English Colonist Born in Virginia