who founded mobile?. the french some street names in mobile come from the french
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Who founded Mobile?
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TheFrench
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Some street names in Mobile come from the French.
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The BrothersA leader and a French naval officer, Le Moyne Iberville and his brother Bienville sailed westward and reached what they called “the mouth of La Mobilla.”
Le Moyne Iberville Bienville
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They traveled from Pensacola Bay westward.
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Iberville explored Mobile Bay and a large Island near the mouth of the bay.
What is the name of the Island that Iberville explored?
Dauphin Island
DauphinIsland
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• They traveled up the Mobile River and founded a fort called Fort Louis.
The“27 MileBluff”
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• The French moved Fort Louis in 1711 just south where the river flowed into the bay.
• They built a new fort and also called it Fort Louis.
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• A village outside of Fort Louis was called La Mobile
• The fort was close to Indian towns and trade with the Indians became important to the French.
• They wanted to trade beads, tools, and cotton cloth for fur pelts and deer skins.
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What was it they were missing?
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Families
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The Cassette Girls• The French government selected young women and sent them to the colony so they could marry the French soldiers and establish homes.
• 23 girls arrived with French Nuns in 1704 on board the ship the pelican.
•They brought their clothes in trunks called “cassettes” and were called the “cassette girls.”
• Because the place they stayed was crude the women rebelled. This was called “the petticoat rebellion.”
•Madame Langois, Bienville’s housekeeper, taught them how to make gumbo.
• They did marry had young children.
• Some moved on to New Orleans, while others stayed.
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Girls: Imagine you are a Cassette Girl
Write a journal entry and describe the following:- What were some things you saw on your
voyage over to the new land?- What are some things your brought with
you and/or wished you could have brought?- How did you feel when you left your
families in France?
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Boys: Imagine you are either Bienville or Iberville
Write a journal entry and describe the following:- What was your voyage like on the way over to
the new land?- What are the places you explored? Describe
some things you might have seen and who did you see?
- How did you feel about the new land?
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•They constructed a brick fort and called it Fort Conde.
• The town around the fort was called Mobile.•The French decided to move south to where the river flowed into the bay.
• The River was the Mobile River.
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Fort Conde Today
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Other Forts…• The French built other forts to increase their influence over the Indians and to improve trade with them.
•Fort Toulouse was built as a trading fort for the Indians as a military out post against the English near the Alabama river.
• An outpost is where soldiers are stationed to prevent surprise attacks.
Fort Tombecbe• Located on the Tombigbee River, it was a a French outpost for a war against the Chickasaw.
• Wars occurred for almost 100 years, involving France, Spain, and England. Control over America and Indian trade was the main issue of each.
• The English defeated France and Spain, therefore Mobile came under the British flag.
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French InfluencesMardi GrasGumboAzaleasStreet Names
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The English
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• Fort Toulouse was established by the French, the English built a trading mission just north of the fort.
• Mission- is a headquarters or station.
• The mission was near an Indian town called Okfuskee, the English called their settlement Fort Okfuskee.
• They wanted to trade beaver pelts for fur hats and deerskin for leather.
Beaver Pelts
Deerskin
Leather
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• Great Britain had more factories than the French, therefore they could manufacture more and better trade.
• The British traders often traveled from Charleston, South Carolina to Alabama Indian country.
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• They bartered (traded goods) for deerskins and animal furs and returned to South Carolina.
Why do you think they went back to South Carolina with these
goods?
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Lachlan McGillivrary
• He was a trader from Scotland who came to America.
•When he arrived to Savannah, Georgia he had only a shilling and some clothes.
• A shilling is a British coin worth about a penny.
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• He signed with a caravan (group of people traveling together) from Georgia to trade with the Alabama Indian country.
• He received a jackknife for taking care of the pack animals on the journey (known as a pocket knife).
•He traded the knife to an Indian for deerskin and when he arrived in Charleston he sold it.
•He continued to deerskin trade in order to make money.
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• He did marry a lady named Sehoy.
•Her father was a French commander and her mother belonged to the Wind Clan Indians.
•They established a trading post and had three children.
•The youngest child, Alexander, received his education from Charleston, South Carolina.
•He later became an important leader for the creeks. Alexander McGillivray
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Why do you think Alexander McGillivrary became an important leader for the creek
Indians?
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English Influences
•Laws•Language