SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did New France and New Netherland struggle to attract colonists? French and Dutch people did not like the idea of moving to a land that one migrant put as “a cold and forbidding country at the end of the world.” In New France, some state policies discouraged migration.
Detailed explanation-2: -It’s widely accepted that the first settlers were hunter-gatherers that came to North America from the North Asia Mammoth steppe via the Bering land bridge.
Detailed explanation-3: -French efforts at colonizing North America began in the early sixteenth century. In 1523 a group of Italian merchants in the French cities of Lyons and Rouen persuaded the king of France, Francis I, to sponsor a voyage by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano (also spelled Verrazzano; c. 1485–1528) to North America.