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In 1534, France sent Jacques Cartier to explore the Atlantic coastline of North America. His goal was to find a Northwest Passage,but he failed to find such a Passage
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New France is now called New York. It was A little state.
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Champlin sailed up the St. Lawrence River and built a trading post he called Quebec.For the next 150 years, Quebec would be a base for French explorers, soldiers, missionaires, traders, and fur trappers.
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in 1673, two explorers, Father Marquette and Louis Joliet, explorer the great Missipi River. They hoped that this waterway would be the long-sought Northwest Passage.
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Robert de La Salle explored the entire length of the Mississipi River.La Salle named this vast area Louisiana for thr French monarch, King Louis XIV.
