THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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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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Detailed explanation-1: -He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico; there, on 9 April 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River basin for France after giving it the name La Louisiane.
Detailed explanation-2: -La Salle secured a contract for the colonization of lower Louisiana from Louis XIV in 1683. The plan was to reach the Mississippi by sea and secure a permanent settlement upriver that would provide the French with a strategic advantage over Spanish interests throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, frequently referred to as Robert de La Salle, was a 17th-century French colonizer and explorer. La Salle is best known for traveling down the Mississippi River and claiming the territory of the river’s basin for the French crown.
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.