The French and the Dutch

The French claimed land in what is now Canada and the northeastern United States and called it _________.

• French Canada
• New France
•  St. Lawrence

_________________ claimed this land for France when he explored the St. Lawrence River area in the early 1500s.

• Henry Hudson
• America Vespucci
• Jacques Cartier

French merchants wanted the wealth that came from the ________ trade.

• lumber
• fish
• fur
• spice

The first French settlement in North America was ___________ .  It was founded by Samuel de Champlain.

• Quebec
• Montreal
• New York

In the 1630s, French Catholic missionaries arrived in New France.  The aim of the missionaries was _____

• to set up trade for the Catholic church.
• to convert the Native Americans to the Catholic religion.
• to take Native Americans back to Europe. 
• to make money in the fur business.

Most French people ____________ interested in moving to North America.

• had no opinion about
• were
• were not

The Dutch called their now colony in North America _______________.

• New Holland
• New Dutch
• New Netherland

The Dutch set up a colony in order to profit from the fur trade.  The __________ , or desire, for furs was high in Europe.

• demand
• supply
• ally

The amount of a good that is offered for sale is called ______________.

• supply
• demand
• profit

By 1626, when Peter Minuit was governor of New Netherlands, the Dutch thought they had purchased ______________ from the Native Americans, but the Native Americans thought this was for all people to use but not own.

• Canada
• the Hudson River
• Manhattan Island