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The French in America: Where did the English locate their shops and stores? |
English put their shops in a business district. |
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The French in America: Where did the French locate their shops and stores? |
French mixed homes, stores, and public buildings through out the village. |
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The French in America: What was a gallery? |
They are porches the French built around their houses. |
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The French in America: How could African slaves gain their freedom? |
Masters set them free as a reward for their years of hard work and others earned enough money to buy their own freedom by hiring themselves out during their few spare hours. |
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The French in Missouri: Describe how the French settlers and Indians got along so well |
They traded with them, they sold them guns and other French goods and they did not try to take the land from the Indians. |
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The French in Missouri: Who was Louis Lorimier? |
He was a famous trader who started the town of Cape Girardeau. His father was a Frenchman and his mother a Native American and he was married to a Shawnee Indian woman. |
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The French in Missouri: What did Louis Lorimier do? |
he was a trader who is considered to be the founder of Cape Girardeau. |
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The French in Missouri: How did the cultures of the French and Indians get shared? |
Because the French and Indians lived close to one another they shared games and traded metal tools, guns, blankets, clothing, and jewelry. The settlers often wore moccasins and leather pants made by the Indians. The settlers also ate Indian foods such as corn, beans, pumpkins and squash. |
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The French in Missouri: How were English and French farms different from each other? |
American farmers owned their own farms and the French farmers planted their crops in a field owed by the whole village called the common field. |
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The French in Missouri: What was a common field? |
This field was usually just outside the village and each family received a strip of land in it and everyone had to help keep up the fence around the common land. |
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The French in Missouri: What were 2 important forms of business in early Missouri? |
They were fur trading and lead mining. |
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The French in Missouri: What jobs did the French women have? |
they had to take care of their families, make clothes and keep their houses clean. they prepared the food which included planting and caring for gardens, harvesting and preserving vegetables and fruit, milking the cows, baking the bread, and cooking meals. They also had to take care of their children. |
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The French in Missouri: How did the men and women dress? |
They wore very simple clothing. The women made the clothes that their families wore. Men would wear pants made from buckskin or rough cotton and loose-fitting cotton shirts, blue handkerchiefs on their heads, and leather moccasins. During cold weather the men put on a heavy cape with a hood called a capot and wore fur hats and fur mittens. |
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The French in Missouri: How did you dress if you were rich? |
The richer people wore clothes made from silk, satin and velvet. Some women had special dresses trimmed with ribbons and lace and on special days the women also wore earrings, ivory combs in their hair, silk stockings, and fancy slippers. The men would dress in fancy coats with gold buttons and leather dress shoes with buckles and even a few rich families had clothes made for them in France. |
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The French in Missouri: Who went to school? |
Most children in French Missouri did not go to school. Only the richest families could afford to give their children schooling. Some important French people sent their children to schools in Canada or the United States. |
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The French in Missouri: How did the French people have fun? |
The French were fun-loving people. Horse racing was a favorite sport. They liked music and dancing. They enjoyed playing games and telling stores. |
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The French in Missouri: What do you know about the Valle family? |
Francois Valle II was the most important official in Ste. Genevieve. His father had been a leader in the town. His wife was Maire Carpentier Valle and had 14 children, 7 died before they were 5 years old. The Valles were wealthy. Valle was a merchant, he made money from mining, salt making, farming and grist and saw milling. the Valles owned much land and many slaves. They let their slaves carry guns for protection on the frontier. |
