2. • In the 16th century despite constant
struggle, the French and English
explorers were unable to find a
“Northwest Passage”.
• The Fur trade was a aspect of
dependency that united the Europeans
and the native Indians. The Europeans
needed fur and hunting techniques were
the Indians like the European
metals, alcohol and cloth.
• Later on the Indians devised trading
protocols to keep at peace with the
Europeans instead of the start of a new
war.

3. • The Natives adapted the use of alcohol from the
Europeans first only as a way to reach themselves
spiritually and then alcohol use became more
conventional abusing in ways that the natives were
actually killing each other in drunken rages.
• By the mid-seventh century the trading goods were
so used by the Algonquian people that they began to
forget how to make their own tools, weapons and
craft skills needed to survive without the dependency
of the Europeans.
• Knowing this the Natives began to over kill beavers in
particular to be able to supply enough furs for settlers
so that they would be able to have a product to offer
trading with. This lead the number of animals in their
surrounding areas numbers greatly decrease causing
scare to their future welfare.

4. • In the 1640-1650s the Iroquois planted large attacks leading that
most Iroquoians became apart of the Great League.
• The intermixing of cultures between the natives and the
Europeans eventually led to disease, war and conflict.
• The Europeans when forced to choose alliances between the Five
Nation Iroquois or the north Indians composing of the
Montagnais, Algonkins and Huron . The Europeans chose the
northern Indians and therefore acquired Southern enemies.

5. • In June 1609, Champlain and nine French soldiers joined a big allied war party to
attack the Iroquoias. After both Indian parties shouted obscenities at each
other, the Iroquoias wanted to have the lead in attack and moved in to do so.
They were not expecting guns and firearms therefore leading to many casualties
and three injured cheifs.
• After this introduction to weapons the Indians learned that their weapons had to
match to guns and they wanted to move on to a more modern way of warfare.
• The Europeans were also unable to fully convert the Natives into Christianity like
they had hoped for.
• Overall the influence of the Europeans towards the Indians were both good and
bad but for the Indians there were mostly bad consequences leading to
death, misery, disease, over kill of crop and animals and the constant push to
leave their own traditions behind.

6. • By the end of the seventieth century France had founded Louisiana in the
lower Mississippi Valley
• In New France seigneurs and emigrants had spurred its slow growth; most
were hesitant to move despite the fact that the move would boost their
social status
• The French learned after the damage was done that they needed more
colonist to defend Quebec from their English rivals
• In 1632 a peace treaty was signed and restored to the French a set of ruins
• The seigneurs that brought the first farm families to Canada were called
“habitants”

7. • The French put a Military Governor-General and a Catholic Bishop to govern
New France
• The French’s goal was to dominate North America’s core by putting together a
network of trading posts between Canada and Louisiana
• The War of the Spanish Succession got in the way and Louisiana was then
entrusted to the Company of the Indies.

8. • With the many emigrants that arrived to the French America were male and
arrived in servitude either as soldiers or indentured servants that were called
engages. Usually the average term for serving were three years then the engages
would be purchased and employed by seigneurs, habitants, merchants or
religious orders.
• Most female emigrants came from orphanages in Paris and were known as filles
du roi which meant “daughters of the king”. In addition to paying their passage
to France the crown provided a cash marriage advance that would look intriguing
to the girls since they didn’t have family money.
• Most of France that emigrated to the Americas preferred the warmer climates of
the West Indies moving there in about ten times the numbers that were going to
Canada.

9. • Indians were forever left dependent upon
the French
• To Supervise tax and product the French
officials tried to condense the fur trade only
to the forts incept that independent defiant
traders known as the courers de bois took
their canoes far away to trade at individual
villages.
• Despite alliances French America was
deemed an utter failure