1. The French Arrive

2. La Salle

3. Who is this La Salle Full Name: René- Robert Cavelier de La Salle
Origin: French
Accomplishment: Claimed the Mississippi Drainage Basin for France

4. The total sum of an area a river drains
Drainage Basin
The total sum of an area a river drains

5. Why La Salle came to Texas?
LaSalle asked the King Louis XIV to settle a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River
LaSalle in 1684 set sail with 4 ships and over 320 People
The Belle

6. Unfortunately, LaSalle was very bad at Geography

7. An Unfortunate Series of Events
Ship One- Food Transporter, captured by the Spanish
Ship Two- Turned Around
<Landfall>
Ship Three – Ran aground
Ship Four- The Belle shipwrecked

8. LaSalle landed at Matagorda Bay
400 MILES OFF

9. The Belle Found

10. LaSalle built Fort Louis

11. Still Lost LaSalle still thought he was EAST of the Mississippi
LaSalle and some men set out going west to find it—
They found the Rio Grande instead
Upon his return to the Fort only 36 were alive
Assassination

13. The Louisiana Purchase
The land claimed by LaSalle for France was later sold to the United States in
1803 to pay for Napoleon’s military campaigns. The United States paid
15 million dollars for the land. This purchase doubled the size of the U.S.

14. The Columbian Exchange
What is it?-The widespread transfer of animals, plants,
culture, human populations, diseases, technology and
ideas between the New World (The Americas) and
the Old World (Europe)
Diseases brought by Europeans killed many Native Americans because they had never been exposed to them before and did not have an immunity to them.

15. Conquistadores
Spanish explorers that came in search of Gold, Glory and God.