The Company of 100 Associates Nations around the Atlantic Coastline The 13 Colonies Jesuit Missions...
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- The Company of 100 Associates Nations around the Atlantic
Coastline The 13 Colonies Jesuit Missions Seigneuries Coureur de
bois Hurons Explorers Des Groseilliers and Pierre Radisson By:
Lien, Anthony, Peter & Luke
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- When the Europeans arrived in 1492 they started to make
colonies These nations included England, France, Spain and Portugal
There were also native Indians including the Iroquois The English
took control in the end destroying the French and subdued the
natives
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- They were a French trading company supported by the king It was
chartered in 1627 They were to support and expand the fur trade and
New France They also had a monopoly on fur trade in that region of
North America
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- They explored the land of North America for resources They also
set up trading posts and fishing ports along the Atlantic coastline
They tried to create a settlement along the St. Lawrence River but
failed because their leader lost monopoly on the area
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- They were largely farming and fishing groups They made much of
their own clothes and grow most of their own food All these
colonies didnt depend on other peoples and were self- sufficient
They also used slaves
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- Rhode Island Connecticut Maryland Delaware North Carolina South
Carolina New Jersey Pennsylvania Georgia Virginia Massachusetts New
York New Hampshire
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- The Jesuit missions started in 16 th century In 1604 the French
explorer, Samuel de Champlain. He initiated the first two French
involvements in north America, he founded Port royal near Florida
in 1605 and the first establishment at Quebec in 1608
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- The Jesuits established a mission on Penobscot bay in 1609
which was the French colony of Acadia On October 25,1604 the Jesuit
Pierre coton asked the general of the company to sent 2
missionaries to Terre-Neuve The mission failed in 1613 because of a
raid by people from Virginia First mission 1609 Second Mission
1611
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- The whole point of sending missionaries to native groups was to
educate them in the ways of God Missions were sometimes abandoned
because of French attacks on the villages Missionaries lived among
the natives and taught them symbols and sign of the Catholic church
(bells or candlelight)
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- Hurons were one of the many Iroquois tribes Their population at
that time numbered around 25,000 They grew crops They lived in bark
houses that can hold 5-6 people
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- The Hurons were mainly republic They had assemblies that
discuss major questions by chiefs They believed in one great spirit
therefore similar to Christianity When the Europeans arrived they
sent missionaries among the Hurons some of them converted to
Christianity
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- In north America, a man who owned a large estate originally
held by a feudal grant from the king of France They had properties
of land called seigneuries Basically the same as feudalism Rich
person
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- They were people who went to north America without permission
from the French government to engage in the fur trade They were
usually good canoeists and were adventurers. Most were French but
some were not and went there to make money
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- Des Groseilliers and Pierre Radisson were two partners that
moved to North America They moved farther inland than most people
They met people from Sioux and were told about all the beavers by
Hudson bay When they came back to the colony their canoes were
filled to the brim with pelts
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- Even with how many furs they had, they were not welcomed back
They had gone off without getting a license to trade fur and had
the furs taken away And so joined the English
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- King Charles II agreed to support them in their quest for furs
They set sail on their ships but only Des Groseilliers made it to
Canada Radisson had to turn back because of bad storms but he
joined him later on In 1669, they returned to England with the fur
they had collected.
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- He was born in France in Nov 22, 1643 He set sail on his ship
Griffin to North America in August of 1679 He was granted a
seigneur when he arrived
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- La Salle immediately began to issue land grants, set up a
village and learns the languages of the native peoples. He heard
from the Indians that there was Great River called the Ohio and he
claimed the entire valley of Mississippi for France He died when 2
men shot him in the back of the back of the head
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- They consisted of a father and three sons They came from a
Quebec family There were the first to search for details on the
rest of the continent They extended the trade to Manitoba They
built eight trading posts
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- He was consecrated as a bishop in 1608 and became a secretary
of state He soon rose in both the Church and the French government
and become an advisor to the king. He founded the Company of 100
associates He was the person who commissioned the Jesuit missions
and introduced the seigneural system.
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- Any Questions???
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