French In America Research Paper

The French in America After leaning the exploration and some colonies in the U.S., I read the book A student’s History of the United States which is written by Edward Channing. I found that French is also one of the essential parts of the colonies in the US. The following essay will explain the process how French planted their colonies in America.
Let’s start with the early French voyages. The leader of the first French expedition to America was Verrazano who was an Italian instead of a French. He sailed in the service of Francis I，King of France. In 1524, Verrazano set out and went along the coast from the Cape Fear River to Nova Scotia. He entered New York harbor and spent two weeks in Newport harbor (Channing 13). The next French expedition was led by a real Frenchman named Cartier. He reached the Gulf of St. …show more content…
He sailed along the coast southward and westward as far as Plymouth. In 1680, Champlain built a trading-post at Quebec and lived there for many years as governor or chief trader. He soon joined the St. Lawrence Indians in their war parties and explored large portions of the interior. He went with the Indians to a beautiful lake in 1609. Far away to the east were mountains covered with snow and to the south were other mountains without any snow on their tops. To the lake the explorer gave his own name, and we still call it in his honor, Lake Champlain. A few years later he went with another war party to western New York and again attacked the Iroquois (Channing27-28).
Champlain is the first of many French discoverers. Some of these were missionaries who left home and friends to bring the blessing of Christianity to the Red Men of the western world. Others were fur-traders, while still others were men who came to the wilderness in search of excitement. These discoverers found Lake Superior and Lake Michigan; they even reached the headwaters of the Wisconsin River—a branch of the Mississippi