4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601

Chapter Chronology

Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders: New France and the Indians: The English Colonies’ Northern Borderlands

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Question 4.6

1. What trade good spurred the French monarchy to establish New France as a royal colony?

Tobacco

Cotton

Rice

Fur

Question 4.7

2. What accounts for the twenty-to-one ratio of English to French colonists in 1660?

New France was merely a trade outpost, so few colonists were required to keep it functioning.

French colonists were much more susceptible to New World diseases than the English were.

Fewer English colonists had been killed in Indian wars.

The French had a stronger army than the English, so they didn't need as many colonists to protect their territory.

Question 4.8

3. How did the relationships between Native Americans and French colonists differ from Native Americans' relationships with English colonists in the seventeenth century?

English colonists had both personal and economic relationships with Native Americans, while the French had merely economic relationships.

English colonists interacted with many different tribes, whereas most French colonists limited their interactions to the Iroquois only.

French colonists generally had better relationships with Native Americans and were less aggressive toward them than the English were.

French colonists more frequently learned native languages to facilitate communications with Native Americans than the English did.

Question 4.9

4. Although the land north of New England was known as New France in the seventeenth century, the dominant military power in that region were

the English.

the Iroquois.

the Spanish.

the Seminoles.

Question 4.10

5. The goal of French explorer Louis Jolliet’s 1673 voyage down the Mississippi River was

to find more wild animal pelts for export.

to conduct a diplomatic meeting with Native American leaders.

to discover native plants to be used for healing sick colonists.