SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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In 1627 the colony was granted to a fur company, the Company of New France, and the fur trade remained the chief concern of everyone except the missionaries.
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More than 3, 000 settlers, including girls of marriageable age, were sent out in the 1660s, and the population soon began to expand rapidly.
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The war was ended by the Treaty of Rijswujk (1697), with New France holding Hudson Bay, as well as all its former possessions.
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In 1756 the Seven Years’ War in Europe began. The American phase of this conflict, the French and Indian War, was to settle the fate of New France.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the main cause of the French and Indian War? The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -But the Seven Years’ War also involved overseas colonial struggles between Great Britain and France, the main points of contention between those two traditional rivals being the struggle for control of North America (the French and Indian War; 1754–63) and India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The French and Indian War: A Summary During 1754 and 1755, the French won a string of victories, defeating in quick succession the young George Washington, Gen. Edward Braddock and Braddock’s successor, Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.