HSTY2034: US History to 1865 18 March 2004

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HSTY2034 US History to 186518 March 2004

• Comparative Empires in the Americas

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Outline 1

• French expeditions in the New World
• Jacques Cartier (1534 - )
• Effect of climate on French colonizing mission
• Importance of the fur trade
• Accommodation not assimilation
• Alliances with Huron and Algonquian

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Samuel de Champlain
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Champlains Routes
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Native Cultures on the Eve of Contact
Native American Cultures
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Champlains War
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New France
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Outline 2

• Relationships of mutual dependency
• - French forced to adopt Indian trade protocols
  and participate in wars
• Effects of mutual dependency on Indian cultures
  and French colonists
• Dutch Settlements
• Swedish Settlements

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Early European Settlements
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Outline 3

• First English Settlements
• privately funded
• first colony at Roanoke (1584)
• second colony at Roanoke (1587)
• little govt control poorly organized
• relationship to local Indians