1. French colonization

2. Late getting into the colonization game:
Foreign and domestic problems
Roman Catholics vs. French Huguenots
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
1598- Edict of Nantes- limited toleration to Protestants
Louis XIV

3. 1608
Quebec
Samuel de Champlain “father of New France”

4. Indian Relations Friendly! . . . To the Huron Indians
Fought with them against Iroquois, lightning sticks!
Iroquois then hated French

5. French Crown took control of New France
Almost completely autocratic
No representative assemblies or trial by jury, etc.

6. Population of New France
Slow growth
1750: only about 60,000 in New France

7. Why does no one want to join the party?
No economic motivation
French Huguenots were denied refuge in colony
French government favored West Indies

8. New France fans out One valuable resources: beaver Beaver hats
Coureurs de bois
Place names: Des Moines, Baton Rouge

9. French and Indians French recruited Indians
Good because, you know not massacring them
Bad because:
Diseasessssssssss
Alcohol
Weapons
Tribal competition/violence
Cultural problems

10. Widespread, large-scale trapping
Great Lakes
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
River valleys of AR, MO, LA
West to Rockies
South to Spanish Texas

11. Jesuits French tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity
Not successful
No system like the mission society of Spanish or praying town of British

12. Empire-builders To stop British in Ohio River valley, founded Detroit
To stop Spanish in Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed “Louisiana”