USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The French settlements in the Pays d’en Haut south of the Great Lakes were Detroit, La Baye, Sault Sainte-Marie, Saint Ignace, and Vincennes. Vincennes was later attached to Pays des Illinois, which was part of Louisiana. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1, 400.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seventeen tribes were well-established on the lands surrounding lakes Superior and Huron. Among these were the Chippewa, Cree, Monsoni, Ottawa, Huron, Assiniboin, Menominee, Winnebago, Potawatomi and Nipissing. Further north and west in present-day Minnesota was the Sioux tribe.

Detailed explanation-3: -The French colonial empire in the Americas comprised New France (including Canada and Louisiana), French West Indies (including Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and other islands) and French Guiana.

Detailed explanation-4: -New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

Detailed explanation-5: -Starting in the 1540’s, the French settled far to the north of the Spanish in the St. Lawrence Valley. In 1541, Jacques Cartier founded the first French settlement in the New World at Fort Charlesbourg-Royal.