French Explorers

Northwest Passage

  • French, English, and Dutch explored the Americas

  • Looking for the Northwest Passage- a water route through or around N.America to East Asia (nonexistent)

    • Well, until global warming melts all the ice.

Riches of New France

  • Found riches not in gold but in furs

  • Established Quebec (as a trading post)

  • Missionaries flood in having found riches in the potential Native American converts. 

New France

  • French rarely settled permanently.   They traded with Native Ams. for fur. 

  • (pop. 1754- 70k) (English colonies were over 1M)