1. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 1: Mapping America

**Quiz for Document 1.3: Dauphin Map of Canada (c. 1543)**

Quiz for Document 1.3: Dauphin Map of Canada (c. 1543)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Cartier’s map of Canada was created to

illustrate which lands and waterways he had claimed for France.

support his claim that Canada was more valuable than New Spain.

document the locations of the native populations and animals of Canada.

illustrate the most important sea routes from northern Europe to Canada.

2. What does the Dauphin map reveal about France’s possession of Canada in 1543?

France had created numerous successful settlements in Canada’s coastal and interior areas.

Most of the French who had come to Canada were Catholic priests and missionaries.

Native American groups had successfully limited France’s efforts to claim the region.

France’s claims on Canada were recent, and it had not yet promoted French settlement there.

3. Why did Cartier depict Spanish and English claims in North America as so much smaller than French claims?

He wanted to demonstrate that France was the dominant European power in North America.

His map was intended primarily to illustrate his exploration of Canada’s eastern region.

He intended to emphasize the time that he had spent exploring and mapping Canada.

His purpose was to publicize France’s plan to wrest much of New Spain for itself.

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