History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0312 short lesson, about 20 seconds
New France
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The idea
By sixteen forty fewer than four hundred settlers lived in Canada. French habitants eked out an existence along the St Lawrence while traders ranged to the Great Lakes.
In practice
France's claims to the interior remaining firmly under the dominion of native peoples.
Where people slip
Colonists depended on the Algonquian. The anchor says without them the French would have perished.
Your place on the trail
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