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French Explorers,73,4
\Who was the first explorer to provide France with a
\claim to the New World?\
Verrazano
Cartier
St. Denis
Roberval
\Why were early French explorers discouraged by the
\St Lawrence River? Because ....\
it was not the Northwest Passage
they found no fish or furs
they could not find gold or silver
they found warlike Indians
\The French were commercially most successful in ....\
fur trading
farming
cheeze and wine
mining and boat building
\The city of ... was established near the site of the
\Indian village of Stadacona.\
Quebec
Montreal
St John
Chicago
\Who was the first to hear of the large bodies of water
\to the west (of the St Lawrence)?\
Cartier
St Denis
De Roberval
Champlain
\Why did Cartier plant a cross after landing? To ...\
claim the land for his King
mark the location of a new church
show others where the channel was
protect settlers from the evil eye
\Why did the colonists of Cartier's second voyage
\return to France? Because of ....\
starvation and cold
Indian threats
lack of trade
threats from the British
\Who financed Cartier's third voyage?\
Roberval
Francis I
Jean Ribout
Champlain
\The Huguenots wished to establish a New World
\settlement in order to ....\
escape religious persecution
fight the Spanish
find gold and silver
build a pirate fleet
\Almost all of the Huguenot settlers at Ft Caroline
\were ... .\
killed by Aviles
given help by the Indians
asked to leave by the British
turned into pirates by Drake
\The "Father of New France" was ....\
Samuel de Champlain
Pierre de Guast
Jean Ribaut
Jacques Cartier
\In 1666 a French army defeated the Indians and built
\Fort ... at the upper end of Lake Champlain.\
La Motte
Chambly
Ticonderoga
Champlain
\Who did NOT travel to the mouth of the Mississippi.\
Hennepin
La Salle
Tonty
Zenobius
\Who was the Captain who deserted La Salle in a ship
\loaded with men and supplies?\
Beaujeau
De la Barre
Greysolon
Accou
\Who built Fort Pontchartrain north of Lake St. Clair
\which became the most important along the Great Lakes.\
Cadillac
Joutel
Delhut
Le Barre
\Who received a trade monopoly in 1604 and employed
\Champlain to help develop the industry?\
Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle
Sieur de Grosseilliers
\Why did so many of the first French settlements fail?
\Because ....\
the settlers were not prepared to be self sufficient
they could not protect themselves from the Indians
they did not have suffienct trade goods
the Indians would not bring in furs to trade
\Why did the French join the Hurons against the Iroquois?\
to ensure Indian friendship and French security
to attract British help in the fur trade
because the Dutch allies were moving into the St. Lawrence
because the French were attacked by the Algonquans
\In the Iroquois War the Indians twice nearly captured ....\
Montreal
Quebec
Ft. La Motte
St. John
\The Company of One Hundred Associates was organized by
\...... to take over control of New France.\
Cardinal Richelieu
King Louis XIV
Jean Nicolet
Sieur de Grosseilliers
\When did the cooperation between the Indians and French stop?\
1763
1615
1609
1663
\What did the Le Moyne brothers, especially Bienville,
\accomplish?\
colonize the lower Mississippi
establish the trade route to Santa Fe
build forts across the Great Lakes
Finance La Salle's third exploration
\Crozat sent ... to replace Bienville as Governor of
\the Louisiana Territory?\
Cadillac
Delhut
Iberville
St Denis
\What was the name of the city laid out by Bienville
\which was to become the seat of Louisiana government
\and the major city on the Mississippi - by 1763 the
\sixth largest in the USA?\
New Orleans
New Biloxi
Montgomery
Ft. Louis
\What was one of the outcomes of the settlement of
\the lower Mississippi River towns?\
trade went south/north rather than east/west
Indians moved closer to the towns
Americans could now travel easily to Virginia
Manufactured goods could be shipped to New York
\A French trading expedition under ... traveled to Taos
\across the general route of the Santa Fe Trail.\
the Mallet brothers
the Le Moyne brothers
Le Salle and Tonty
Verendrye and sons
\Which explorer explored North Carolina to Maine and
\discovered New York & Narragansett bays 1524?\
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
John Cabot
Piere Quebec
\Name the explorer who toured the American coast in
\1524 from Cape Fear to Cape Breton?\
Giovanni da Verrazano
De Champlain
St Lawrence
De Coligny
\Who searched for a water route to China but died on his
\second voyage in 1528?\
Verrazano
Cabot
Roberval
De Montreal
\Which explorer was born 1485, died c1528 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1523-24?\
Giovanni da Verrazano
Sieur de Roberval
Gaspard de Coligny
Rene de Laudonniere
\Who explored Newfoundland, Prince Edward Isl & the
\St Lawrence River to Montreal 1534?\
Jacques Cartier
Giovanni da Verrazano
Gaspard de Coligny
Samuel de Champlain
\Name the explorer who discovered the Gulf of St Lawrence
\and River and claimed the area for France at Gaspe Bay?\
Cartier
Da Verrazano
De Champlain
De Roberval
\Who wintered at Stadacona in 1535?\
Jacques Cartier
Champlain
De Aviles
De Laudonniere
\Who did Roberval back for his third trip in 1541?\
Jacques Cartier
Giovanni da Verrazano
Samuel de Champlain
Jean Nicolet
\Which explorer was born 1491, died 1557 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1534-42?\
Jacques Cartier
Jean Nicolet
Jacques Marquette
Louis Jolliet
\Which of the following events was Cartier associated with?\
Returned to France with 2 Indians
Establish a water route to the Mississippi
Established the mission of St. Ignace
Founded Quebec as a trading center
\Which explorer trecked northern New England along the
\St Lawrence to Lachine Rapids in 1603?\
Samuel de Champlain
Jacques Cartier
Henri Hudson
Rene de Laudonniere
\Name the explorer who discovered Mt Desert Isl in 1604
\and explored Nova Scotia to Narragansett Bay 1604-7?\
Champlain
Verrazano
Serra
Carter
\Who founded Quebec as a trading center in 1608?\
Samuel de Champlain
Gaspard de Coligny
Louis Jolliet
Pierre du Guast
\Which explorer was born 1567, died 1635 and was active
\in U.S. explorations during a period 1603-15?\
Samuel de Champlain
Daniel G. Delhut
Louis Hennepin
Robert C. La Salle
\With which of the following events was Samuel de
\Champlain associated?\
Accompanied Huron war parties against the Iroquois
Explored the Mississippi River to its mouth
Built trading posts on the Great Lakes
Established the City of St Louis
\Which explorer discovered Lake Michigan and was the
\first to reach the Wisconsin shore 1634?\
Nicolet
Champlain
Carter
Bienville
\Name the person who was sent by Champlain to Quebec
\to study the Algonkian language in 1618?\
Jean Nicolet
Pierre du Guast
Louis Jolliet
Jacques Cartier
\Who claimed that the Mississippi River lead to Pacific?\
Jean Nicolet
Champlain
Marquette
Jolliet
\Which explorer was born c1598, died 1642 and was active
\in U.S. exploration in 1634?\
Jean Nicolet
Robert La Salle
Henry de Tonty
Daniel G. Delhut
\Name the explorer who accompanied Jolliet to explore
\the Upper Mississippi as far as the Arkansas River 1673?\
Marquette
Champlain
La Salle
De Monts
\Who were the explorers who deduced that the Mississippi
\River lead to the Gulf of Mexico and not California?\
Marquette and Jolliet
Le Moyne brothers
La Salle and Tonty
Accou and Hennepin
\Who established the Mission of St. Ignace in Michigan
\in 1671 and died near Ludington, Michigan?\
Jacques Marquette
Louis Jolliet
Jean Nicolet
Daniel G. Delhut
\Which explorer was born 1637, died 1675 and was active
\in U.S. explorations during a period 1672-75?\
Jacques Marquette
John Cabot
Le Moyne
Jean Nicolet
\Name the explorer who explored Michigan, Arkansas and
\Illinois in 1673 and charted the coast of Labrador 1694?\
Jolliet
Marquette
Le Moyne
Nicolet
\Who was the explorer who establish a water route from
\the St Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico with Marquette 1673?\
Louis Jolliet
Jean Nicolet
Sieur de Monts
Samuel de Champlain
\Which explorer was born 1645, died 1700 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1672-73?\
Louis Jolliet
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Sieur de Roberval
\Which explorer built the Griffin, the first sailboat to
\cross the Great Lakes?\
Robert C. La Salle
Sieur de Roberval
John St. John
Rene de Laudonniere
\Who was the explorer who explored the Mississippi to
\the Gulf of Mexico with Tonty in 1682 and established
\French claims to Louisiana?\
La Salle
Bienville le Moyne
Jean Nicolet
Rene de Laudonniere
\Who landed by ship at Matagordo Bay, TX in 1685 and was
\killed by his own men on the Mississippi?\
Robert C. La Salle
Gaspard de Coligny
John Cabot
Jean l'Archeveque
\Which explorer was born 1643, died 1687 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1673-82?\
La Salle
De Tonty
De Champlain
De la Barre
\Which explorer was an Italian soldier of fortune
\working for the French?\
Henry de Tonty
Daniel Greysolon
De la Barre
Captain Beaujeau
\Name the explorer who explored the Mississippi with
\La Salle Feb to Apr 1682?\
Henry de Tonty
John Cabot
Le Moyne
Daniel G. Delhut
\Who constructed Fort St. Louis at Starved Rock 1682-83?\
Henry de Tonty
Jack Crevecoeur
Pere Louis Hennepin
Daniel Greysolon
\Which explorer was born c1650, died 1704 and was active
\in U.S. exploration and trading during a period 1678-85?\
Henry de Tonty
De la Barre
Captain Beaujeau
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
\Whith which of the following events was Henry de Tonty
\most closely associated?\
Companion on La Salle's exploration
Accompanied Jolliet to the upper Mississippi
Rescued Delhut from the Indians
Captured with Accou by the Indians
\Which explorer was captured by the Sioux and rescued
\by Duluth in 1679?\
Louis Hennepin
Henry de Tonty
De la Barre
Antoine Cadillac
\Name the person who explored the upper Mississippi River
\Region 1678-79 and spent 3 months in Minnesota 1878-79?\
Louis Hennepin
John Cabot
Daniel Greysolon
Jacques Marquette
\Who discovered St. Anthony's Falls near Minneapolis?\
Hennepin
La Salle
Le Moyne
De la Barre
\Who explored with Michel Accou and falsely claimed to
\have reached the mouth of the Mississippi?\
Hennepin
La Salle
Cadillac
Delhut
\Which explorer was born 1640, died 1705 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1678-79?\
Louis Hennepin
D'Iberville
De Bienville
Gaultier de Varennes
\Name the explorer who claimed Lake Superior & the upper
\Mississippi River for France 1680?\
Daniel G. Delhut
Cadillac
La Salle
Jean Nicolet
\Who rescued Hennepin and Accou from Indians in 1679?\
Daniel G. Delhut
De la Verendrye
Samuel Argall
the Mallet brothers
\Which explorer was born 1639, died 1710 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1678-80?\
Delhut
Marquette
Nicolet
Hennepin
\Which explorer founded Mobile 1710, St. Louis 1711,
\Ft. Toulouse 1714 and New Orleans 1718?\
Le Moyne
La Verendrye
La Salle
St. Denis
\Who explored the lower Mississippi with his brother
\Iberville?\
J.Bienville Le Moyne
La Verendrye
Daniel G. Delhut
John Cabot
\New Orleans become a major port under ....\
Bienville Le Moyne
Robert C. La Salle
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Etienne Veniard de Bourgmond
\Which explorer was born 1680, died 1768 and was active
\in U.S. exploration during a period 1710-18?\
Bienville Le Moyne
Jacques Marquette
Henry de Tonty
Claude Charles du Tisne