HIS 2361 Lecture 14: March 10
10 Mar 2017
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Continental dimension unof cial expansion, legal and illegal fur trade, commercial competition, moving northwards and southwestward. Trying to nd a route to asia. Innu and illinois has the same route word. Idea of a great river leading across the continent. From the great lakes and green bay. Did not manage to reach the mississippi. Felt insecure about nding natives down stream. Expansion off french knowledge about the covenant. Wanted to establish a fort at the river mouth to keep it from the spanish and the english. Needed to nd it from the sea. Technology allowed them to know their latitude, but not east to west, often missed the river mouth. Establishes french bases for further expansion in the mississippi valley. In this period posts multiple in the interior. How the expansion takes place on the ground. Colonial models; french vs english vs dutch vs spanish. Footprint on the landscape is much lighter than their competitors.
