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15 Cards in this Set
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Northwest Passage |
-1500's Europe try to find route to riches -south route, to difficult; wanted water way through north america - John Cabot found island on accident, looking for passage, of the cost of Canada |
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Exploring for France |
-french sent italian, Giovanni da Verrazano to find NW passage -he went from the carolinas to canada -1530's;Jacques Cartier(French), traveled halfway the St. Lawrence |
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Henry Hudson |
-Hudson(Dutch) sailed to NY, w/ is boat half moon -next year he sailed for english, far up north -after a harsh winter, his crew rebelled and 7 crew members and his son were sent adrift; never seen again |
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failure and succes |
-no one found the passage to ASIA -the explores did map North America -rulers of western europe thought of harvesting rich resources |
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rivalries among european nations |
-europe countries started to fight over resources -religious rilveries made it worse - the roman catholic church(westerneurope) was divided into christians |
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Religious divisions |
-monk(martin luther) disagrees with catholic church and split from it, bc too worldly and thought of eternal life from good works -people like him were called Protestants, and made movement called Protestant Reformation which made new churches -spain and france(catholic), Dutch people and english queen were protestants |
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rivalries in the americas
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-europeans settled in america with their religious fights -Queen Elizabeth wanted people to raid the Spaniards for treasure -english protestants fought with french churches -not all fights religious, half were over land and markets |
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New France |
-Samuel de champlain founded port Royal, first N american French permanent settlement (1605) -3 years later, lead group where Cartier pioneered -above St. Lawrence, Chaplain built trading post |
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economy of new france |
-little gold&silver, more fishing, trapping and trading -french workers in woods called coureurs de bois or runners of the woods -french traded knives, kettles, cloth etc. for beaver skins and furs -coureurs de bois nice to indians, indians liked them taught them survival skills |
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missionary work |
-Catholic missionaries traveled w/ fur traders -missionarie is person who goes to new land to teach their religion -french missi. taught Christianity to native americans and drew maps |
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gov. of new france |
-french king ruled gov. directly, people had little freedom -council (made by king) made all decisions -Louis XIV worried few french in new france so he sent many farmers and women to colony(1660) -New france grew slowly, 10,000 peeps in colony; only a third were farmers the rest coureurs de bois |
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New netherland |
-Peter Minuit led dutch group through hudson, found manhattan called new amsterdam
-other dutch went farther up hudson, made colonies (now known as NY) -trading post on hudson, most popular post fort orange (albany) - |
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rivalry over furs
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-dutch sent furs hom, french and dutch became rivals with french -both wanted to be friends with native americans -dutch+iriqois vs french+hurons |
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dutch ways in north america
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-dutch brought costumes, ice skate on frozen rivers, christmas (St. Nick) -some dutch words are same in english, boss, yachts,sleighs and cookies |
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impact on native americans
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-european settlements made changes on N americans
-european diseases killed lots people -furs started fights and over trapping - |
