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.