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French and Dutch Colonies in the New World
The Northwest Passage• The Northwest
Passage- waterway through or around North America
• Cabot, Cartier, Verrazano and Hudson searched for it.
Quebec
• Quebec became the center of the fur trade.
• Samuel de Champlain brought settlers to Maine and Nova Scotia
Marquette and Joliet
• clip about explorers
• Marquette and Joliet were a French fur trapper and priest that explored the Mississippi River for France.
Marquette and Joliet exploring the Mississippi River
Robert LaSalle
• LaSalle founded
Louisiana for France
• He named it after
King Louis XIV
Picture of the assassination of Robert La Salle
New France
• Most French settlers came to the New World to trap and trade for fur, which was very profitable
• The French established forts in places like New Orleans and Detroit to protect themselves against the British settlers
The French and the Native Americans
• coureurs de bois- french fur trapper
• They learned from the Native Americans
• Married Native Americans
New Netherlands• The Dutch settled in what is
present day New York State • Henry Hudson explored the
Hudson River• Peter Minuit bought Manhattan
Island from the Native Americans and named it New Amsterdam
• Peter Stuyvesant gave up New Netherlands to the English. New Netherland became New York.
Dutch settlements
• Fort Orange is present day Albany
• Dutch built trading posts all along the Hudson River.
• Dutch took over New Sweden
Lasting influences of the Dutch
• Santa Claus
• Cookies
• Yachts
• Sleighs
The Dutch in Rockland County
• The Dutch settled in Tappan and Blauvelt.
• In 1694 there were 16 families in Tappan.
• What is the nickname of Tappan Zee HS teams? Explain.
Effects of Settlements on the Native Americans
• Rivalry over the fur trade involved the Native Americans in wars.– Dutch gave guns to the Iroquois to fight Algonquins
who were allied with the French• Missionaries tried to convert Native Americans to
Christianity.• Indian lands were seized.• Some Native Americans were enslaved.• Indians began to use European goods such as
copper kettles, muskets and alcohol.