The document discusses the history of French settlement in North America, specifically focusing on the Iroquois Confederacy and French America. It describes the Iroquois tribes located in what is now upstate New York and their role in the fur trade. It then outlines the establishment of New France by the French in the St. Lawrence Valley and later colonies in Louisiana and across 15 U.S. states. Finally, it notes the influence of French Protestant refugees and French Canadian immigrants on early American society and industries.

1. The French in North
America
Matthew McHolland
History 140
Professor Arguello

2. ***Canada And Iroquoia***
Chapter # 5
• The Iroquois were an association of several tribes of indigenous
people of North America.
• They were also known as “Haudenosaunee” or “People of the
Longhouse.”
• When Europeans first arrived in North America, the Iroquois were
based in what is now the northeastern United States, primarily in
what is now referred today as upstate New York.
• Today Iroquois live primarily in New York.
• The Iroquois league is also known as Iroquois Confederacy.

3. ***Canada and Iroquoia***
Chapter # 5
• The name of this tribe implies that the nations of the
league should live together as families in the same
longhouse. Symbolically, the Mohawk were the
guardians of the eastern door, as they were located in
the east closest to Hudson.
• The name has various possible origins , both learned by
the French from tribes that were enemies of the
Haudenosaunee.

4. ***Canada and Iroquoia***
Chapter # 5
• Members of the league speak Iroquoian languages that are
distinctly different from those of the Iroquoian speakers.
This suggests that while the different Iroquoian tribes had a
common historical and cultural origin , they diverged as
peoples over a sufficiently long time that their languages
became different , and they distinguish themselves as
different people.
• The Iroquoian invaded the Ohio River Valley in present-day
Kentucky to seek additional hunting grounds.

5. ***Canada and Iroquoia***
• Indians normally wanted shiny objects. As a result, they
begin trading.
• They value all objects.
• They were good at fur trade.
• The French claimed St. Lawrence Valley because was in
a perfect location. In other words, they were able to
explore and discover new untouched territories in the
west.

6. ***French America***
• French America is the French-speaking
community of people, notably those tracing
origins to New France, the early French
Colonization of the Americas.
• Quebec is the center of the community, but it
may also include the rest of Canada

7. ***French America***
• At the end of the 17 century, once France was in the United
States, they founded a colony that was later named Louisiana.
• LOUSIANA- the Cajuns of Louisiana have a unique heritage. Their
ancestor settled Acadia, in what is now the Canadian provinces
of Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Islands.
• French Louisiana, when it was sold by Napoleon in 1803,
covered all or part of the fifteen current U.S states and
contained French and Canadian colonist dispersed across it.

8. ***French America***
• Colonial Era- In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an
influence of a few thousand Huguenots, who were
protestant refugees fleeing religious persecution in France.
• For nearly a century they fostered a distinctive French
Protestant identity that enable them to remain aloof from
American society. By the time of the American Revolution
they had generally intermarried and merge into the larger
Presbyterian community

9. ***French America***
• Many of the early immigrants worked in the
lumber industry.
• French Canadian immigrants women saw the
United States as a place of opportunity and
possibility where they could create alternatives
for themselves distinct from the expectations of
their parents and their community.