France in the New World

Question 1

Northwest Passage

Answer 1

-trade route thru Arctic along North American coast

Question 2

Giovanni de Verrazzano

Answer 2

• 1524 Italian looking for a way thru US to “China”

- eaten by Indians in Caribbean

Question 3

Jacques Cartier

Answer 3

• 1534 looking for a way thru
• St. Lawrence River, cannot get thru
• finds wood, furs, fish = $ in Canada

Question 4

Samuel De Champlain

Answer 4

• “Father of New France”

- founded New France + Quebec 1608