French and Dutch Exploration Answers

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Which of the following was a result of Jacques Cartier’s failed attempt to found a colony in North America?

Cartier returned to Quebec with more settlers the following year.

The French sold their land claims in North America to the English.

The French did not send explorers to the New World for many years.

Cartier explored the North American coast and found a Northwest Passage.

Which French explorer sailed down the Mississippi River to its basin?

Verrazano

La Salle

Marquette

Cartier

The first Europeans to settle the area that is now New York were

French explorers

English fishermen

Spanish soldiers

Dutch traders

In addition to catching fish in the waters near New France during the 1500s, French fishermen

searched for a route to Asia

began to trade with Indigenous peoples

established colonies named for their king

challenged the English for control of North America

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