Champlain
___________________ ____ ____________________ was chosen by the King of France to lead New France.
Samuel De Champlain
La Salle wanted to build a _______ at the mouth of the Mississippi River and attack the ________________ in Northern ____________.
Fort
Spanish
Mexico
While some American Indians were hostile, the ______________ and other groups help Marquette and Jolliet.
Illinois
___________, ____________, and ______________ had different approaches to colonizing North America.
Spain, France, and England
The forests of Europe had been __________________, but Europeans still desired hats made from ______________ ________.
Overhunted
Beaver Fur
Champlain felt that building _______________ relationships with the American Indians would lead to ____________________ trade.
Friendly
Successful
Spain’s relationship with the American Indians was based on ________________. Spain also wanted to convert all native peoples to ______________________.
Conquest
Catholicism
In 1673, _________________ ____________________ and Louis ______________ headed south in a ______________ on the uncharted ______________________ _______________.
Jacques Marquette
Jolliet
Canoe
Mississippi River
The three nations competed for _________ and ___________.
Land and Trade
___________________ settlers began to export ________________ ____________ across the _________________.
French
Beaver Pelts
Atlantic
Within the first year, Champlain learned the _____________ language, and the nearby __________ and ____________________ groups traded with each other and maintained ______________ relations.
Huron
Huron and Algonquin
Friendly
To further expand, Spain offered large portions of land to those willing to move to New Spain. These areas were called ______________________.
Encomiendas
La Salle and several _____________ settlers got lost and ended up in present-day _____________. By 1687, only _______ of La Salle’s settlers remained alive.
Hundred
Texas
36
The colonies of New ___________ and New ____________ appointed ______________________ who reported back to the King and Queen.
France
Spain
Governors
In 1682, Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de ____ ___________ led an expedition down the Mississippi River and named the region ____________________ after French King, _____________ XIV.
La Salle
Louisiana
Louis
In 1609, ____________ and __________________ leaders approached Champlain asking to form a _______________ alliance because they had been long enemies with the _________________.
Huron and Algonquin
Military
Iroquois
In 1720, a ship carrying about _______ slaves landed in _______ ______________. In the decade that followed, the colony imported more than _____ ________________ slaves.
200
New Orleans
Six Thousand
_________________ and ______________ claimed land by the Mississippi River for _________________. Marquette later set up a __________________ in present-day Illinois, and Jolliet continued to explore North America.
Marquette and Jolliet
France
Missions
Because the Louisiana Territory was easier to farm, settlers grew __________, ________, and ______________.
Indigo, Rice, and Tobacco
Louis XIV instructed a Canadian Naval Officer, Pierre Le Moyne ____________ d’______________, to build forts at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Sieur d'Ilberville
The ________________ armies did not yet have _________ and _________________ which made it easy to defeat them. However, in 1634, there was a ________________ outbreak that weakened the Huron Confederacy.
Iroquois
Guns
Gunpowder
Smallpox
As Spain began claiming the West Coast, these _________________ became part of their strategy to prevent _______________ and __________________ from settling land in present-day _______________________.
Missions
Russia
England
California
Because of the Beavers’ role in the conflict, historians have called the war between the _________________, the _____________, and the Huron and Algonquin, the ___________________ Wars.
Iroquois
French
Beaver Wars
Before the Europeans arrived, the people living in __________ ______________ already _______________ with one another, had __________________ agreements, and shared _______________.
North America
Traded
Military
Cultures
The money the French raised help pay for more ______________________ in _______________ __________________.
Expeditions
North America