1. Life in New France
Chapters 2-3

2. How Colonies Were Built:
1. King gives permission (charter) to investors to create a company whose only purpose is to start a colony.
2. Investors create a joint-stock company (pool resources)
3. Company sends ships, men & supplies to new land & builds settlement. Profit split among group & king given certain % for giving them permission to build the colony!

3. The French Come to North America
Northwest Passage- fabled H2O route through North America to Asia
French explore coast looking for N.W.P.
Cartier- explored St. Lawrence River & inner Canada
Champlain- built 1st French colony in Nova Scotia & founded Quebec- became capital of “New France”

4. Life In New France Fur trading post
Temporary colony- fur trade in winter, abandoned in summer months
Mainly men- lived with Native Americans & intermarried Native women
No huge cities, mainly small trading posts

5. New France Expands
Marquette & Joliet – explored the upper Mississippi River & claimed all land around the river for France
La Salle – 1st to follow the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf of Mexico
Claimed the region for France (Louisiana – King Louis XIV)
D’Iberville Brothers – built French settlements of Biloxi, Mobile & later New Orleans for France