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New France and the Iroquois Nation
By che end ofthe seventeenth century, che French
Empire in America iad come to poses avast terr-
tory: the whole lengch ofthe Mississippi River and
its dels (which they named Lousiana, after their
‘ing, and the conesentalinceior a far west a the
Rocky Mountains and as far south a5 the Rio
Grande, France clamed, in effect, the entre inte
or ofthe continen
‘To secare their hold on
FreethClel hese enormous claims, they
oe founded 3 song of widely
Separated communities, forests, missions, an
trading pose. Would-be feudal lords established
large estes Geignarie along the banks ofthe St
Lawrence River Ox sigh bluff above the rier
stood the fraied dty of Quebec. Montreal to the
South and Stale Saiee Mare and Detroit tothe west
smart te nore boundries of French sete-
‘ment. On che lower Mississippi emerged plantaions
worked by black skves and owned by “Creole”
(hit imamigrans of French descent) New Orleans,
founded in 1718 ec service the French plantation
‘economy, Was soon‘ big a ome of the larger ces
ofthe Adan seaboard Blot and Mobile to dhe
‘st completed the sing of Preach eclement.
Both he French andthe Eapsh were aware chat
the bade fr conaol of North Americs would be
the rebel eae pendence had begun.
hon the French and Inn War ended in 1763, igh ave seemed reasonable to expect
that relauora beoween dhe Englsh colonists in America and Great Brain feo would
have been cemented more firmly than ever Buti ace the end ofthe war atred the
imperil rdadonsip forever To the Brith the lesson ofthe war was tae de cobs In America
needed fener convo rom London. The erpire was now much bigger and Ie needed better adin-
‘raion. The war had procuced ereat deb and te Arerians—among the pina! banefiares
‘ofthe war~should help pay them And s0 for more thanx decade afer the end othe fing. he
Brits redone strategy ser another ofan control over and extract money fom the colonies
“To the colons, ths effort so hte imperil rule appeared both a beara ofthe sacrifies they
had mage nthe war and 1 challenge t the long-deveoping asumpcors about the rigs of En-
ish people co rule thersehes. Graal, white Amerians came t See Inthe Bish plies evi-
denct oft conepracy to extabeh granny inthe New World And so ewoughout the I76Oe and
1770, the colons developed ever more overt and eective forms of rxance. By the time the
fest shot were fred in the Ameren Revelation in 1775, Brain ad Amercs had cme to view
ach other as two very diferene sores. Their diferences propelled chem ito & var that would
thange the course of history for both.