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Chapter 3 Lesson 4 Study Questions and answers

3) How did competition grow among European nations?
• As each nation began to claim land and explore the competition grew
• Land and wealth was the main reason
• The other country wanted the land so the other country could not have it

4) How did trappers and missionaries help New France grow?
• The French trappers and Missionaries made friends with the Native Americans and moved into their territories and made a huge profit for France

5) How did the arrival of Europeans affect Native Americans in North America?
• Brought European diseases to the region and killed millions of Native Americans
• Rivalry over fur trade caused Native Americans to attack each other(encouraged by Europeans)
• Over trapping on certain land
• Missionaries tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity
• Native American adopted to European trade goods

6) Who was Martin Luther?

• A German monk who was the leader of the Protestant Reformation

7) What was the Protestant Reformation?
• Protestants began to protest against the church

8) What did all countries compete for all over the world and in the new land?
• Competed for control of land in North America and for economic markets all over the world

9) The first permanent French settlements, in what became known as New France, were founded by ________________.
• Samuel de Champlain

10) On a rocky cliff high above the St. Lawrence River, Champlain built a trading post known as __________________________.
• Quebec

11) What did the French profit from in the New World?
• Fishing, trapping and trading

12) What is a coureurs de bois?
• Runner of the woods

13) How did the French trappers get along with Native Americans?
• Very friendly with the Native Americans
• Native Americans taught the French how to fish and trap
• The French married Native American women

14) Why did missionaries often travel with the coureurs de bois?
• Coureurs de bois knew the landscape and the surrounding areas, felt comfortable around the coureurs de bois and also could speak the language

15) What did the Native Americans call the Mississippi River?
• Father of Waters

Geography Skills
• 2) Mississippi River
• 3) there were no strict boundaries separating their North American territories

Chart Skills

17) Who was Robert LaSalle?
• Traveled down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
18) Why were forts built by the French along the Mississippi River?
• To keep Spain and England out

19) What fort was built at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
• New Orleans