FRANCE AND SPAIN & ENGLAND’S COLONIES GROW

1. FRANCE AND SPAIN & ENGLAND’S COLONIES GROW E.Q.: How did Europe’s conflicts effect North America?

2. New France • France had little interest in creating large scale colonies like England. • France was only interested in trapping furs and sending missionaries to North America. • France’s fur companies built forts and trading posts and made good profits. • After founding Quebec in 1608, all of that changed. • By 1663, New France (later called Canada) became a royal colony.

3. France Expands to the Mississippi River • In the 1670’s Louis Joliet, a fur trapper and Jacques Marquette, a priest explored the Mississippi River by canoe. • They hoped to find gold and a passageway to the Pacific Ocean. • Once they realized the Mississippi ran south to the Gulf of Mexico they turned around. • Rene’-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle followed the river all the way to the gulf and claimed all of the lands for France.

4. New Orleans and the Growth of New France • The royal governor of the Louisiana territory founded New Orleans in 1718. • French explorers would leave this port to expand west to the Rocky Mountains and southwest to the Rio Grande. • French settlements developed slowly compared to England’s through tenant farmers. • France had far better relations with Indians than England; they shared nature’s gifts.

5. Spain Was Busy • While England, France & the Netherlands concentrated on North America, Spain already controlled most of South and Central America & all of Mexico. • Spain expanded into the southwestern United States and California. • Spain was determined to keep England and France from their claims. • They sent missionaries, soldiers, & settlers into the areas.

6. Spain Builds Missions in California • Spain tried to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism. • Spain also brought them by force to be enslaved in workshops and field workers. • Junipero Serra, a Franciscan monk started a mission at San Diego & 15 years into his work, he built 8 missions at what would become Monterrey & Los Angeles. • He worked tirelessly to make sure Spanish soldiers did not mistreat Native Americans.

7. France & England Square Off • These bitter rivals fought several wars in Europe during the 1700’s. • These conflicts often spilled into the American colonies. • Between the 1700’s and 1800’s their rivalry would shape events across the Atlantic even more decisively. • Spain would later become an obstacle for the United Sates of America’s expansion westward.

8. Your EQ • Take the remainder of class and answer your EQ in your Cornell Notes.