1. VI. Other North American Colonies A. France 1. Northwest Passage 2. Samuel De Champlain a. Acadia (1604) (Nova Scotia) b. Quebec (1608) 3. French Fur Companies a. Indians b. Settlers c. Rivers, Trading posts & Forts 4. Louis XIV 1661-1715 a. Expanding colony and Preparing for War i. Larger Navy a. more timber b. Furs for gold

2. b. Expand and explore i. Louis Jolliet & Fr. Jacques Marquette (Jesuit) 1670s a. Mississippi and Missouri Valleys b. Encircle English ii. Bring technology to interior B. Dutch 1. East India Co. (1609) 2. Sailing up Hudson River (wampum) 3. Ft. Nassau (1614) (Albany) 4. New Amsterdam (1624) a. Peter Minuit bought Island of Manhattan ($24.00 in beads) b. only 1/2 Dutch, rest primarily German, French or Scandinavian c. 18 different languages spoken d. primary interest in trade i. 18 taverns only one church ii. back Iroquois in fight against French backed Hurons

3. C. Swedish 1. Small colony in lower Delaware Valley (1638) 2. Controlled Fur Trade as well 3. launched attack against Dutch 4. Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant a. Defeats Swedish and forces them to join Dutch (1655) b. while Dutch at war, Algonkians attack and weaken Dutch