1. The Duel for North America Ch. 6

2. France in Canada  The Edict of Nantes  1598  Issued by the crown of France. It granted limited religious freedom to French Protestants, and stopped religious wars between the Protestants and Catholics. King Henry IV

3. Champlain & Quebec  1608 – France establishes Quebec  The leading figure was Samuel de Champlain, an intrepid soldier and explorer whose energy and leadership earned him the title “Father of New France”.

4. New France  The government of New France (Canada) was under direct control of the king.  The people did not elect any representative assemblies  New France contained one valuable resource - beaver.  French Catholic missionaries, notably the Jesuits, labored with much enthusiasm to convert the Indians to Christianity and to save them from the fur trappers

5. Detroit  Antoine Cadillac- founded Detroit in 1701 to thwart English settlers pushing into the Ohio Valley.

6. La Salle  Robert de La Salle- explored the Mississippi and Gulf basin, naming it Louisiana  the French planted several fortified posts in Mississippi and Louisiana. The French founded New Orleans in 1718.

7. The Clash of Empires  King William’s War (1689-1697) and Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)  Earliest battles for control of North America  The wars ended in 1713 with peace terms signed at Utrecht.  France and Spain were terribly beaten and Britain received French-populated Acadia and Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay. The British also won limited trading rights in Spanish America.

8. The War of Jenkins’s Ear  The War of Jenkins’s Ear started in 1739 between the British and Spaniards.  This small battle became a war and became known as King Georges’s War in America.  It ended in 1748 with a treaty that handed Louisbourg back to France, enraging the victorious New Englanders.

9. George Washington and War with France  In 1754, George Washington was sent to Ohio Country to secure the land of the Virginians who had secured legal rights to 500,000 acres.  His 150 Virginia militia killed the French leader, causing French reinforcements to come.

10. Washington and the Virginians  The Virginians were forced to surrender on July 4, 1754.  In 1755, the British uprooted the French Acadians fearing a stab in the back, and scattered them as far as Louisiana.  These Acadians make up the Cajun population that is now in Louisiana.