NEW FRANCE

TYPE OF COLONY

• Royal
• The colony is ruled by a
• royal governor appointed by the
• French crown.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

• It is rocky up north.
• Fertile land in the south and middle
• interior plains
• Canadian Shield and Canadian Cordillera
• Coastline

PG CONTINUED

• Major cities are New Orleans,
• Detroit, Natchez, Baton Rouge,
• and Bilox

POPULATION

• The settlers came from France
• They came for free land and religion

ECONOMY

• Fur trade

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Minerals, fish, timber,
• natural gas, and hydroelectricity

INTERESTING FACTS

• In 1524 Giovanni Da Verrazzan
• led the first French Expedition to America.
• In 1815 there was a battle between the French
• and the British over Louisiana.
• The explorers Marquette and Joliet explored the Mississippi from its beginning to end

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