1. The French in Illinois
Illinois History

2. Paradis Terreste
Conflicts with Fox Indians push French settlement south
The American Bottom
Kaskaskia {1703}
Commerce & Cultural Center
Fort de Chartres
Administrative Center

3. Lifestyle Farming Fur trading
Shortage of women leads to intermarriage of Frenchmen and Indian women
Close knit villages
Altruistic

4. “Long Lot” Farming

5. Isolation Only a few thousand Frenchmen
Most in the American Bottom
Village assemblies were the law
Distinct from France and Canada

6. Who. Scottish economist Where. Moved to the American Bottom When
Who? Scottish economist Where? Moved to the American Bottom When? (in) 1717 What? To take control of the economic development of French settlements Why is he significant? Law’s plan fails, ultimately having to relinquish control of the Illinois country to the crown, where it will remain for the duration of French Illinois.
John Law

7. Phillipe Renault Director of mines
First to introduce African slavery to the Illinois country
(1720)
500 slaves from Santa Domingo
Sells them to neighboring families