APUSH Spiconardi The French Motives Find gold Locate a Northwest Passage Both were failures The French Colonization In 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec In 1673 a Jesuit priest and fur traded located the Mississippi River ID: 707097
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French and Dutch Colonization of the New World
APUSH: Spiconardi Slide2
The French
Motives
Find gold
Locate a Northwest PassageBoth were failuresSlide3
The French
Colonization
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec
In 1673, a Jesuit priest and fur traded located the Mississippi RiverBy 1681, the French had gotten to the Gulf of Mexico
French claim the entire Mississippi River ValleySlide4
The FrenchSlide5
The French
The Population
By 1628, the French population was 85
By 1663, the population was fewer than 3,000By 1700, there inhabitants had risen to 19,000Why the low population?France feared a population loss would undermine their status as a European power
French government feared potential conflicts between settlers and natives
Canada was deemed as iceboxSlide6
The French
Characteristics
Roman Catholic
Persecuted Huguenots were not allowed to immigrate to New FranceNo representative government
Focused on fur trade as opposed to agricultureSlide7Slide8
The French
Relations with Native Americans
The French prided themselves on adopting a more humane approach to relations with natives
The French did not desire large amounts of land like the English and SpanishReligious Tolerance…Sort of
Samuel de Champlain encouraged religious tolerance for all Christians and
did not
view Native Americans as inferior
Jesuits
Attempted to convert natives, but did not seek to suppress traditional religious practices
Encouraged natives to adopt French language and gender roles
But… “It happens more commonly that a Frenchman becomes savage than a savage becomes a Frenchman.”Slide9
The Dutch
Dutch West India
Trading
A trading company appointed directors to govern the peopleNew Netherland lacked any form of an elected assemblyTolerance
The Dutch came to trade, not conquer land
Settlements were forbidden until land had officially been purchased from natives Slide10
The Dutch
What was the most famous land deal?
The sale of Manhattan (New Amsterdam) to the DutchSlide11Slide12Slide13
The Dutch
Tolerance (
con’t
)Dutch women could own property, go to court & borrow moneySlave rights
By 1650, there were 500 slaves in New Netherland
Half-Freedom
Some slaves were given land to support their families
Diversity
By 1630s, roughly 18 languages were spoken
Why so diverse?
Religious tolerance extended to all Christians and JewsSlide14
The Dutch
New Amsterdam becomes New York
Peter Stuyvesant becomes governor in 1647
Ruled harshly & repressively In 1664, King Charles II of England grants land in New Netherlands to his brother James, Duke of York and Albany
English show up with four armed ships
Stuyvesant surrenders without fight
Not supported by residents of New Amsterdam