1. The French and the Dutch By Lauryn Lang

2. New France In the 1500’s Jacques Cartier began an important trade with the Huron Indians The king of France hired merchants to build colonies in the North America The merchants hired Samuel De Champlain then in1608 the found the first French settlerese

3. New Netherland The Dutch was building settlement called New Netherland They settled along the Hudson River, parts of New York and New Jersey By 1626, Peter Minuit was the governor In 1626, the Dutch made a new settlement New Amsterdam

4. Exploring New France Both Hurton and Iroquois Indians wanted to control lands in the present-day Canada The Huron were allies, or partners, with French, while the Iroquois were partners with Dutch and English The French king, Louis XIV, didn’t wont to lose France’s North American lands, so he made New France a royal colony

5. Exploring New France, cont. He sent Count de Frontenac to explore the western part of New France He knew that there was a large river west of Quebec that Indians called

6. A Colony and a Capital The King of France then sent another expedition to Louisiana Pierre Le Moyne and his brother Jean Baptiste reached the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 1699 In 1712, the French king made Louisiana a proprietary colony In 1722, New Orleans, one of the colony’s first towns became Louisiana’s capitals

7. A Colony and a Capital cont. In 1717, John Law, a Scottish banker became Louisiana’s owner Like the rest of New France, failed to attract enough people for it to prosper