SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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It provides an accurate representation of the resources discovered in New France.
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It demonstrates the importance to New France’s fur trade of founding new colonies
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It provides an early perspective of one of the first places colonized by Samuel de Champlain.
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It demonstrates King Louis XIV’s reasons for taking control of Port Royal for the government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Look at the map near the section “Fur trade and the founding of Quebec.” Which statement BEST explains why the map is included with the article? It provides an accurate representation of the resources discovered in New France .
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel de Champlain, (born 1567?, Brouage, France-died December 25, 1635, Quebec, New France [now in Canada]), French explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1608 Samuel de Champlain installed the first permanent base in Canada at Quebec, which grew as a fortified fur-trading post. The St. Lawrence and its tributaries gave the French the best access to the interior of North America and control over the fur trade, an advantage that the British wanted to gain.
Detailed explanation-4: -The French were interested in exploiting the land through the fur trade as well as the timber trade later on. Despite having tools and guns, the French settlers were dependent on Indigenous people to survive in the difficult climate in this part of North America.