Question

Which of the following rivers did Joliet and Marquette want to control for the French?
Select one:
a. Mississippi
b. Missouri
c. St. Laurence
d. Illinois

Answer 1

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Answer 2

While Louis XIV reigned in France, plans were made to investigate the American continent that had been visited by French, English and Spanish explorers and settlers. Two young men, Louis Joliet, a fur trader, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, were chosen to lead an expedition from a mission at the northeast corner of Lake Michigan into the center of the unknown continent. Joliet was an experienced map-maker and geographer, Marquette an accomplished linguist who spoke half a dozen Native American languages. Joliet's mission was to find the river the natives called Messipi, "the Great Water," and follow it to the sea. Marquette's goal was to spread the word of his god among the people they encountered.

On May 17, 1673, Marquette, Joliet, and five men on two birchbark canoes set off. Following the northern and western shores of Lake Michigan, they paddled down the Fox River, portaged to the Wisconsin River, and then found themselves on the Mississippi. More than a month into their journey, Marquette and Joliet, leaving their men to guard their canoes, walked unarmed into an Illinois Indian village. Marquette's robes were recognized and they were welcomed into the village and fed. On their departure, the chief of the village gave them a calumet, a peace pipe, to present to potentially hostile tribes, and lent them his own ten-year-old son, who would help guide them on their journey.

Joliet's 1674 Map of New France Pub in History of Chicago P. 48 by Andreas Past the Ohio River, near the present site of St. Louis, the calumet came in handy. A swarm of Arkansas Indians surrounded the canoes and prepared to defend their territory. Marquette told his men to hold their fire and raised the pipe as high as he could, even as a club flew past his head. When the calumet was recognized, the conflict was immediately over and the Frenchmen were taken to Akansea, the chief village of the tribe, near the mouth of the Arkansas River. There the elders told the explorers that further down the Mississippi were other foreigners with guns. From the descriptions they were given, the two Frenchmen inferred that the Mississippi led to the Gulf of Mexico, occupied by the Spanish. Not wanting to risk losing this valuable information, the party turned back toward Quebec.

~ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_mandj.html

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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