USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1500s, France was trying to find a shorter route to the Indies by traveling north around America. This route they were looking for was called the Northwest Passage.

Detailed explanation-2: -La Salle was soon captivated by the opportunities available in the largely unexplored lands of North America. In 1669, he launched his first expedition, discovering the Ohio River.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jacques Cartier was a French navigator who sailed to find the Northwest Passage. Cartier made 3 voyages to North America. In 1534 King Francis I sent Cartier to search North America for gold and other valuable metals. On this voyage he sailed up the estuary of the St.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was a French explorer and the first European known to have seen the Ohio River. La Salle was born in Rouen, France in 1643. As a young man he studied to become a Jesuit priest but left the religious order due to his unwillingness to conform to Jesuit doctrine.

Detailed explanation-5: -He returned to France late in 1683 and obtained royal support for a voyage to the Mississippi through the Gulf of Mexico, there to establish a colony “a secure distance” from the river. The voyage, which sailed from La Rochelle on July 24, 1684, was attended by numerous misfortunes (see LA SALLE EXPEDITION).