What Happened with the French of The U.S after the Louisiana Purchase?
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The number of French in this area was very low. It wasn't like America bought the land and moved in. It probably took years for anyone to even notice a difference..the French fur traded mostly and I'm sure that went right on happening.
Yes. The French presence was much larger in Canada compared to the US
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Yes. France did not truly occupy and physically 'own' the land. France had a claim to all that vast territory which was recognized in Europe and by the American Government. Therefore, American settlers could not simply just move in and establish farms. That would have been regarded as an invasion and act of war by American nationals as the French government would see it. The United States Government had to first purchase the "claim" from the French Napoleonic government for a cool 20 million dollars, which was worth far more back then than today.
After the U.S. Government purchased the Louisiana territory land claim from France, Americans would soon start to migrate west and then confront the 'real' owners of the land, the shocked and aroused Native American tribes living there who suddenly learned their tribal lands no longer belonged to them. Of course the Indian tribes were going to have something to say about that which in the long run did not turn out well for them.
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I'm sure their families are still there, assimilated and American same as the next American who may have another type of background,
The French, except for Quebec, never settled North America in an aggressive manor like The English did and then the former English colonists, The Americans. The French were only too happy to establish fur trading out posts across the Upper Midwest, but never got serious about moving many people here to establish large vibrant cities. They made a half baked attempt in Detroit, but soon after the war of 1812, that colony was quickly Anglizized by by American settlers. The same holds true for The Louisiana Purchase. With the exception of the Cajuns in the state of Louisiana, the French did not spread out in large numbers across the fruited plain of the midlands. This left The United States wide open for existing Americans and those who emigrated much later in the century who largely were not French, but rather German, Scandinavian, Irish, Italian and Polish. The French let a golden opportunity slip through their hands due to a seemed lack of interest.
They liked Algeria i guess
@@johanlibert2481 the conquest of Algeria started in 1830, much after all that, and even then France had to use Spaniards and Italians to populate Algeria. The truth is that compared to other Europeans French people never really wanted to leave their country. They had plenty of space and fertile land already, and didn’t face extreme poverty forcing them to find opportunities elsewhere.
I will agree and disagree. For the French government there was no concerted effort at colonization like the English but that didn't stop French traders and explorers for seeking out opportunities in the New World. In addition to Quebec and large swath of central Illinois, longitudinal from where Chicago is today along the Illinois River to just S. of St.Louis that had "mixed race" settlements of natives, French, other Europeans and free Blacks (who usually had to "free" themselves).
@@sans_hw187 Yep they just wanted their resources & people ( slaves) for themselves !
I think part of the issue is that the British allowed or encouraged those or various beliefs to settle in the colonies while the French only wanted Catholics very loyal to the crown. That instantly lowered the population interested in moving.
There were French speakers that lingered on quite vigorously in Louisiana until the state of Louisiana mandated that all public school instruction be in English the same thing happened in Maine and other states that had a large French-speaking population
This mandate of English only instruction occurred around World War I and there was a push to assimilate people into American culture. American society and English-speaking literacy was a big part of it, but it wasn’t done on. It was done at the state level.
As of now there’s been a movement to try to resurrect use of the French language in both Maine and Louisiana. It’s an uphill battle because we live in an English language bubble in the United States.
Fortunately, the language is linguistically close enough that it isn’t too hard to pick up some basic conversation skills, but you have to have a community to practice them in. That is the challenge.
The French colonial effort had such little significance in America [the continent] and former French colonies are so poor and insignificant that I can't imagine the French language gaining any traction whatsoever in America or Asia for that matter.
I think the most challenging thing is that the only way a child can get into the French immersion system is by having a fluent French speaker in their home. My grandparents were taught French first and then English, but by the time my dad was born they had already been put down for speaking Cajun French and not wanting to speak it to the children. My dad was the first to have English as his first language. He was drawn from the “Acadiana” region and moved to New Orleans to be with my mom who had the same experience, so they could not teach us the language. My dad’s family still speak Cajun French fluently and I am very big on my children hanging around my cousins who are teaching their children Cajun French.
I really like to see them teaching French at the school, but if you don’t have any Cajun French speakers around, the language is not coming back
@@ThisIsMyRUclipsName1 I have actually met Cajun French speakers from Louisiana.
@@stevedavenport1202 I personally know a lot of Cajun speakers that are Cajun French. Unfortunately it’s not enough to make a great difference
En tant que Québécois, je dis bonjour à tous les Franco-Américains, continuez à vous battre pour conserver votre culture unique et votre Français et n’ayez pas peur d’élever votre voix et de montrer votre présence, votre combat et votre volonté sont dignes d’admiration et d’exemple pour tout Francophone dans le monde!
this, my friends, exemplifies the consequences of the policies in Canada versus the United States to the parts of the countries that were settled by the French.
. I am 50% Franco American..have no desire to learn French.
You forgot one city near me, Louisville, Kentucky, 37% of kentucky lives in Louisville, 00s of French gothic churches, the Fleur de Lis is the official city emblem & old official document stamps are French, as do old limestone buildings have French writing.
After visiting New Orleans, you realise there are many obscure parts of Louisville that look just like New Orleans, the French cathedrals are in older parts of town surrounded by what were French limestone wealthy homes 150 years ago, rehabbed to varying degrees.
Sadly there are no native French left in Louisville.
Across the river from Louisville Kentucky is St Albany Indiana,
As you move across small roads of Indiana you find it divided very starkly between ethnic German Bavarian architecture, homes, with German town & street names,
next to towns with French Gothic cathedrals & French architecture of the town center shops.
Last names in Southern Indiana at least south of Indianapolis, are either German or French.
Indianapolis is its own separate thing, if it had an ethnic culture I never saw it.
Like Louisville people who are culturally completely different from anywhere else in Kentucky, Indianapolis does not share the traits of its surrounding Indiana inhabitants, at least not in the major parts.
Did you ever see that documentary they were playing on KET about ten years ago, “St. Joseph’s College: A Triumph of Faith” I believe it is called. It is about a Catholic college and/or institution founded by French Catholic missionaries to what is now central Kentucky. It was a great documentary and like many I saw on KET I can’t find it!
*New Albany, Indiana
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The area of Louisiana was "discovered" by the Spanish. The French colony was just established under that name later.
It was just scouted by them first as non-americans
@@BarlasofIndus That doesn't negate my point that the Spaniards de Navaez and de Soto separately "discovered" what became Louisiana well over a century before the French first settled there.
@@markaxworthy2508 I'm pretty sure it was already there before they came:)
@@dagfinissocool That was why I wrote "discovered" in parentheses.
@@markaxworthy2508 I know.. sorry I just had to get my joke in:)
My ancestors worked as translators and traders, in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys.
We’re still here… south of I-10 in Louisiana
Yeah, but you're American now and you don't speak French anymore.
@@manyulgarprsch- because they outlawed it and beat our parents for speaking it! A very sore subject amongst us Cajuns! 😡
Be happy you are in the greatest country in the world and stop complaining
Bien que je ne sois pas le plus légitime a dire cela n’étant pas français de souche, mais pour moi ceux d’entre vous qui vous considérez français sont aussi français que nous, d’ailleurs il serait sûrement opportun (si ça n’est pas déjà le cas) de faciliter l’obtention de visa de tourisme pour les américains francophones. De plus, les territoires francophones des USA font partis des seuls qui me donnent une quelconque envie de visiter ce pays. Je suis sur Instagram un influenceurs de Louisiane francophone, je le trouve très intéressant et je trouve que votre langue (comme tout les créoles dont la base est le français) est magnifique, riche, intéressante et digne d’être connue du plus grand nombre!
@@manyulgarprsch I speak Cajun French couyon
Technically, the Spanish were the first Europeans to set foot there in the early 1500s. However, they didn't settle it.
Its the romans unofficially. The spanish were using old roman gold and salt mine maps.
Im guessing when western rome collapsed some of the old territories new of maps and very hastily organized voyages to new world
And the celts were most likely mining the salt(possibly gold also)
Phoneticians, Egyptians, and greeks left evidence as well
Yeah, the Spanish crown in North America usually only sent Roman Catholic missionaries sponsored by the Papacy. Spain sent just enough people to build a church to preach to the natives then left them to their own devices most of the time. This was one of the main reasons why Spain had such loose controls over their newly acquired territories and this loose control was inherited by the Mexican Empire 1821 to 1823 until what is present day Mexico eventually gained a sense of stability of its territories by post-French rule 1862-1867
technically the spaniards did not go in north america at the time (not above florida). the first explorer of north America was Da Verazzano, who was working for the french king Francis I.
@@alainprostbis They did as long as you consider Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Washington State to be a part of North America (and BC in Canada for that matter).
There is so much misinformation in this video that it is hard to correct it.
1) Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts. TWO of Louisiana’s 25 or so French parishes were settled by debtors from France who were released from debtors prisons to build the population of the colony. The rest were not.
2) The word Creole means native born. It’s not a race or a mixture of races. It means anyone born in the colony. There were people of all races who fit the categorization, as well as Creole horses, Creole sugar and rice. It was all inclusive, like American. It’s not a special race.
3) The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada. That’s just a bold misstatement I’ll attribute to lack of research.
4) You completely left out the Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia (French Acadia) and eventually immigrated to Louisiana.
5) Louisiana is not a land of poor soil. It’s a land of very rich farmland. The state’s early wealth was all agricultural.
Bonjour... you stated that : "Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts." And that is not what is said in the video... but many convicts were sent there. "The word Creole means native born" that is exactly what is said in the video. "The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada." True but much much later in the 1850-1880s. "Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia.. and eventually immigrated to Louisiana." They did not immigate to Louisiana they were deported the same as jews did not "emigrate" to concentration camps they were deported ... but I see you are well verse in history 😇
There was a lot left out for sure…but I did my ancestry and some of my French family moved to Philadelphia from New Orleans after the purchase…but yea the bulk were from Canada for sure I think he’s just saying some people migrated to the bigger established cities for opportunities still trying to find out why my family did
Plus St. Louis wasn't founded on the *East* side of the Mississippi. That was a terrible bit of mapping.
For us french speaker in canada creole is a black language from haiti
Which is a mixh of french and indigenous languages
As a man from the lower 9 up in New Orleans. The culture is strong here and very much distinct from every other city or state in the U.S. Especially when it comes to our French heritage.
Got much love for home.
Pretty crazy to think that part of America was at one point napoleonic territory
Napoleon was a g
What's funny is that the US borrowed the money to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the British Government. The British were at war (or at least hostile) with the French at the time.
So, this deal caused the British to accidentally fund Napoleon's Empire.
Haitians are responsible for Napoleon selling the territory which played a major role in transforming America into what it is today. That's something they made sure isn't taught in schools.
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Everywhere was at one point Napoleonic territory...
As someone born and raised in Dubuque IA the French influence is still felt here today. Hell the name of the city is after a French settler who set up here.
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My first thought is Des Moines.
Cheers from Paris cousin :)
Bâton-Rouge (red stick) though I don' think these residues of the french language in North America are a good thing.
@@jasc4364 in what way?
The picture of Louis 14 represente Louis 15😂
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I'm writing a book that includes a chapter on the French in the Illinois Country that became part of Britain's expanded Quebec Province in 1774, then came into the United States during the War of the American Revolution. They were localized to a few towns of a few thousand people, so they dissolved in the larger population, but left their French names behind in towns from Joliet to Creve Ceour, St. Louis, Louisville, etc. There is a more recent French Canadian diaspora into the USA Northeast and Midwest from the late 1800s through the Great Depression, and that is where many French names in America come from. They have blended into the fabric of American life and are recognizable only by their French-sounding last names. "Duchon, Gendron, and LaFountain" are some we know.
Good to know. I've often wondered how far up the French were able to get before the territory was sold. Whenever I watch anything on Lewis and Clark's exploration, no mention is made of what they already did know before they left St. Louis. There must have been some maps available to them.
@@MrLesonfireforGodThe French owned Canada before the British got there. They came down the St. Lawrence passed through the Great Lakes, came down Lake Michigan, crossed the portage near Chicago that connects to the Illinois River, then came down there to where it meets the Mississippi near St. Louis, then followed the Mississippi to their colony at New Orleans, and took the Missouri River as far west as the Rockies. It was a magnificent empire they had in the heart of North America. They were mostly trappers and traders with the Indians and got along well with them, frequently marrying into their tribes. They came under British Administration after the British won the French and Indian War. Then came into the United States when we wrested what was then known as the "The Illinois Country" from the British. IN 1774, just before the Revolution, the British expanded the Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, so what we call The American Midwest was destined to become French Canada if we hadn't taken possession of it.
The other day I asked my friend whose last name is LaFountain how long his French ancestors had been in Michigan. He said they'd been there longer than anyone could trace, going back to the first days of the French moving down the St. Lawrence and crossing into what is now the United States.
I've read a couple of interesting books tracing the French centered around Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin as well. Thanks for commenting.
@@alansewell7810 You tried getting Canada as well didn't you? how many times did you fail to take it again?
@@cpj93070 The American Revolution was triggered by several factors. One of them being that in 1774 the British extended their Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, covering all of what we now call the American Midwest states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. That part of French Canada was incorporated into the United States in 1783. In later years, about half of all people who immigrated into Canada re-emigrated to the United States, continuing to modern times. Including some of my business partners, colleagues, and friends.
Deal was so good that Jefferson accepted it before Congress could even figure out what was happening
Jefferson then supposedly felt guilty about his overreach of power for years after, but at least he didn’t pull an Andrew Jackson and “purchase” a territory by force lol
Also thank the Haitian revolution for driving down the price to 15 million which is wildly cheap for that much land.
Don’t talk bad about Jackson. He’s one of our greats!
@@BMWE90HQif your idea of honoring the past is suppression of mistakes your not honoring anyone
Great people are great because of their human flaws they had to grapple with while archiving remarkable feats
@@BMWE90HQ Oh I wasn’t talking bad on him, that was very in character for Jackson. What Jefferson did was out of character for Jefferson, that’s why he felt guilty. Jackson never felt guilty because conquering land without permission was always his thing.
Also should add that Jefferson was a big proponent of small government. So purchasing the territory through Presidential power without notifying Congress was to him, a huge breach of his political stance and being a libertarian of the era.
I guess the deal was just that good or the drinks in Paris got to him
Yes the haitian revolution and the napoleon war make them sell low
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Tu as raison mon gars, vive les expats français, 😏
I never knew Spain held the Louisiana territory.
I love learning new things.
Exactly
The errors and mistakes on this video are made on purpose to engage people in the comments section. Pathetic
Probably scripted using AI
Like which ones? I ask sincerely because outside of Louisiana, I'm not very familiar with the French in America. You should do a rebuttal here.
For one, he has St. Louis on the wrong side of the Mississippi.
Great video but you don’t pronounce the S at the end of Gras . Just Gra . I’m from Louisiana.
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I picked on that also. I already dislike sites that use ai voices. ai voices make small but very noticable miss pronounciations. One of my favorites so fars was hearing the number 10,400 said as 10 fourhundreds. I still laught at that
I cringed.
I'm from England and even I knew that.
There were only a few tens of thousands of French in Louisiana in 1804. They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names. Most of the people claiming French origin in the US are from later migrations.
Arcadia
Really....
@@guyl9456 Really!
@@markaxworthy2508 I hope you are not American but whatever's the case you really need to open a history book. "They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names." 4000 places actually outside of the present state of Louisiana.
@@guyl9456 Like I said, ""They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names." Thank you for reaffirming my point.
I’ve lived in St. Louis for decades. I can honestly say that you would be hard pressed to even find a French speaking person that lives there anymore. Too much time has passed by and the French population over time was very integrated in the US population so much so that the only things left in St. Louis that are tied to France is the architecture and names of places and streets and that’s pretty much it. Very little if any French culture exists there anymore with the exception of the Mardi Gras celebration.
Not surprising given that French culture is going extinct in France as well.
@@tiam303 Really then how come it receives 85 million tourist a year more than any country on the planet.
The French language culture in Massachusetts was dealt a hit with a change in education policy in the 1960s. Franco-American parochial schools were allowed to teach in French. Both of my parents (3rd generation Americans) spoke French before they spoke English and were taught their lessons in French. In the 60s, Mass put an end to the exemption and forced the schools to teach in English. To help their children, many Franco-American households stopped speaking French at home to give their children a leg up when they went to English language schools. My generation is probably the first in Massachusetts to not speak fluent French. We were taught it, but never used it. :(
I have seen some people from St-Genevieve near St Louis that spoke an understandable french. But qe are talking of about 4 people lol
@@guyl9456 The same reason millions of tourists go to Greece and Egypt each year: see the remains of a once glorious civilization.
I got to visit the French Embassy in DC when I was stationed there. It was very nice, and they were very generous with their food 😄
I grew up in St. Louis in the 1950's & 1960's. My father's family came from Germany in the late 1840's to farm in Illinois. I always thought our family was probably among the first settlers of an area just East of St.Louis. WRONG. My grandfather informed me our family's farm was part of a Royal French Grant that had already been established by settler over 100 years earlier, before the 1750's. And in grade school we all learned native trappers and French traders had been doing business in the Kaskaskia valley for 100 years before that. Many old families of Missouri and Arkansas will boast privately of their Osage heritage and mixed race background, if you offer enough beers. So my sense of what happened to most of the original French settlers after the Louisiana Purchase is that they melted into the pot of Americana, whatever that means to each person.
The "Frenchness" of New Orleans is vastly overstated and misunderstood as it relates to the Louisiana Purchase and in many other ways. New Orleans had been a Spanish colony for the 40 years prior to the Louisiana Purchase. France held it for 19 days in 1803. The majority of the New Orleans population had arrived during the Spanish era and incredibly few were French in origin. There isn't even a single building from the French era that stands today. All colonial buildings were built during the Spanish era. Much of the French influence in New Orleans came more than a decade after the Louisiana Purchase when former residents of Haiti arrived, most having spent at least a decade after the Haitian revolution in Cuba before making way to New Orleans. We have a thin veneer of Frenchness because for some silly reason, people here somehow think that they are somehow more elevated in social status by thinking of themselves as French instead of Spanish, German, Sicilian, Irish and all the other ethnicities that most of the local population originates from. Few people from New Orleans will agree with me unless they are historians. They just don't know better and love their own myths and fairy tales much more than they care about the truth.
I'm guadeloupean (black french) and to me there is a blattant african/haïtian footprint in Louisiana "french"mixed créole culture : voodoo, gombo sauce dish, even mardi gras.
I'm living in France and the carnival took place mainly in the french west indies, Dunkerque, Nice and french Guiana.
There is no carnival parade in Paris (except carnival tropical to compete with Notting Hill in London, with french west Indian music groups).
You are right. Louisiana became French again in 1800 but Spain had to keep ruling awaiting a French governor who arrived less than 6 months before the US purchase to finalize the transfer of power. They rose the French flag and 19 days later lowered it to rise the US flag.
Alabama also had many French connections, Demopolis was established as “the vine and olive colony, in Marengo county, also a French name, and the town of Linden, just south of there was named after the battle of Hoenlinden, a Napoleonic battle.
USA really lucked out with this and the Alaska purchase
So did Russia. Japan would have taken it away from them.
The fact that St. Louis is on the wrong side of the river bugs me.
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Why?
North America would be so interesting today if it had remained divided roughly equally by Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone cultures.
What's really annoying is that I live in the US and despite living so much closer to Quebec City than Mexico City, so many signs are in English and Spanish, but not French, and there are a dozen Spanish Radio stations but not a single French one. French was banned for a century, while a whole month was dedicated for Spanish speakers.
But yeah, I like to imagine you have Francophone Canada, Anglophone US, and Hispanophone Mexico.
Canada : Francophone
USA : Anglophone
Mexico : Hispanophone
@@tamzidmohsinkhan3333 Roughly equal?
South of St Louis there are still small towns with clear ties to French settlement such as Ste Genevieve. Individuals that spoke French fluently lasted until the 1900s and there may be a handful today.
@Knowledgia there is actually 10 million French descent individuals currently residing in the US not 6 million French descent individuals currently residing in the US.
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I know this is probably half joking, but Alaska doesn’t come close to the Louisiana purchase. The US quite literally would have never a superpower without it.
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60 years later.
@@stormsurge1850 can always tell who didn't watch the entire video.
As you enter the town of Milk River, Alberta Canada you'll see a sign showing the flags of all six groups who've controlled the area around the town at one time or another. These are the Spanish, French, American, Hudson's Bay Company, British and Canadian.
This small area at the southernmost edge of Alberta drains into the Missouri via the Milk River, which of course was the northernmost edge of the Louisiana Territory.
Decent video. Some corrections and omissions: the Seven Years' War started in 1755, not 1756. The Acadian / Cajun influence was completely ignored. To the credit of the Spanish, they opened up Louisiana around 1785 to allow expelled Acadians who had been shipped to France in the 1750s to return to the New World in Louisiana. Of course, self-interest was involved as quite a few uprooted Acadians in France couldn't find available farmland to work and were slowly migrating toward the Spanish border. An added note: the marriage record of Vital Guérin, a great----uncle, contains the first recorded instance of the name of Saint Paul, MN.
The French migrated to the new world in small numbers. Unlike the French the Spanish and English saw moving to the new world as an opportunity for the common man to acquire wealth and riches that the new world had to offer.
Demography is the key to understand most events in History and people don’t realize it. If France lost continental North America it’s not because they “didn’t care” or “didn’t fight”, but simply because the 20,000 settlers of New France were insignificant compared to the 20 million souls living in the British American colonies.
@@sans_hw187 exactly
They forgot to mention Wisconsin. I am a descendant of Frenck Canadian from Wisconsin. I thought they where going to talk about my descendants.
Hello from New Madrid. One of my great-grandmothers was a French North American.
As a Québecer, I could say that we have more in common with the south of the U.S than the rest of Canada. Culturally and Historically
The first European to see the Mississippi River was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519 (not by the French in 1682 as the video suggests).
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Mardi Gras
Don’t pronounce the S please
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Great video but hearing that was rather jarring.
Why did Nova Scotia show as British when it was originally L’Acadie and settled by the French. After the war forced out by the British. Many settled later in Louisiana.
As a descendant of the French you speak of it hAs been a disater for our culture
I appreciate French-Cajun Americans.
They introduced Mardi Gras, Rum, and Cajun food recipes to America.
Can you make another video about the Spanish after the Florida Purchase?
This is a special video for all the Americans who think the only commun point in our history is WW2 and D Day in Normandy...
America would not exist without the French, the statue of liberty is a gift from France and yes, a large part of the country was the property of France in the past...
So France is not a randum country that got the great idea to surrender during WW2, it's way more than that (plus France still own the victory record in history).
Dustin "Poirier" from the UFC is a Louisiana French.
The Louisiana Territory Claim would be more accurate name rather than the Louisiana Purchase because much of the land belong to the American tribes. United States then use that claim as a justification for displacing the First Nation.
3:25 That's not the right photo of Louis XIV, that's Louis XV...
I had thoughts about what if the US spoke French since 2012.
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A culture not worth preserving
And Franco-Americans in general: Québecois and Acadien descent checking in.
Why the New Spain or the french Caribbean colonies was not an option for this settlers? Haithi was in revolt, but Guiana, and other minor french antilles not.
it could be that the economies of the other colonies were different. guiana for example i think was mainly a cash-crop based plantation colony, so unless you're willing to buy some slaves and start a sugarcane farm, there isnt much reason to move there
After the Haitian revolt, quite a few French went over to neighboring Cuba. Specifically, eastern Cuba where they restarted anew in the tobacco plantation industry.
What happened is that the United States purchased France's "CLAIM" to the Louisiana Territory. The French did not actually occupy the land itself. But France's Louisiana claim was internationally recognized in Europe, and by the United States Government, which meant American citizens were not at liberty to simply move in and claim lands for their farms. France would have regarded that as a foreign invasion of its lands. The U.S. would have to lay claim to all that land first and that meant purchasing France's land claim.
It's a long story of how France came to claim all that vast territory because in history, Great Britain forced France out of North America after a series of victories in the Seven Years War, known in North America as the French and Indian Wars.
Left out of the story were the large number of Native American tribes occupying the Louisiana Territory, as their ancestors had for hundreds of years. They had no idea the lands under their feet were being claimed and bought and sold between Europeans and former Europeans. How many Native Americans lived and died in the Louisiana Territory before Americans finally moved west to claim the territory purchased from France, without even knowing their lands no longer belonged to them? Naturally in the run of history many would put up a fierce, if ultimately futile resistance.
Quebec Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Florida were not part of the other 13 Colonies.
The problem with that story is that the French did not actually own the land that they sold to the US. But that didn't stop them from doing it anyway. And considering that the US eliminated most of the native peoples who were there first anyway (Manifest Destiny), they could have got the land without giving the French anything.
They turned into hillbillies
They were targeted, discriminated, mocked, forced to assimilation. The same thing happened in Canada.
Do you know of the quote by Canadian politician Henri Bourassa from the early 1900's? If the French had won in 1763, Napoleon would have later sold Quebec to Jefferson along with Louisiana and there would be no French in North America today. In other words, the Quebec Separatists can only justify their position if they completely ignore the fact that the French didn't want them and their English oppressors were the only ones to give them some amount of existence as a people. Things could have been better I'm sure, but Quebecers should be thankful not rebellious.
@@MrLesonfireforGod I heard something similar before. It's fictitious history. Better to stick to facts and to recall the fights for our rights in the 70s.
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Colonel Vigo was an Italian who commanded a fort under French service. He helped with. Lewis and Clark expedition
It was goong really well up until 1814 lol
One of the best videos on the subject. As a Canadian who studied how the French language disappeared from the US it is interesting to watch. Just a few notes the large territory of Louisiana was scarcely populated by like you say in the video a population of mixed heritage. The video talks about Quebec but we don't know if it refers to the city or the area. It is important to know for Americans that Canadian provinces as they are know are the creation of the confederation (1867 onward). As for the Spanish control of Louisiana except for the first governor it was well accepted. Now let's be honest except for a few very isolated places and this is terrible or great depending on where you stand but the French language as a native language is basically dead in America of the millions who could speak French decades ago only about 70k remains and the majority are very old.
I had not previously been cognisant of the extent of French involvement in American history. I sort of had a picture of the now state of Louisana beloning to France and Thomas Jefferson buying it off them. How silly and simple I was. Interesting video, thanks.
You forgot to mention Alabama, which was a part of the French colony.
Moving back to France after the Louisiana Purchase is kinda cringe. The French Revolutionary Wars had been running for a decade and immediately switched to the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Repeated conscription to refill the ranks of the army. War would come home to France herself. There would be 12 more years of the Napoleonic Wars.
What is ironic in this trade of Louisiana between France and U.S., which Thomas Jefferson knew British would soon or late declare war to U.S. for Louisiana territory, this is a bank from England who lend the money to Americans to permit them to pay to France...Barings Bank
And the french wanted the money to finance war/invasion of Britain I believe
Some errors here : At 3.26, your picture is not of King Louis the XIV (reign 1643 - 1715) but of his great-grandson and successor king Louis the XVth (reign 1715 -1774). Then there was no Napoleon (his first name as an imperator, from december 2d 1804) back to 1800-1803, only Bonaparte, first consul of the French Republic (so no protection of the "crown" for the French colonists). And it was not a steal : France could not realistically defend such a distant colony (accessible only though "La Nouvelle Orléans") with so few colonists. A war would have cost 100 million dollars + casualties ... for the same result. It only could have negociated better the price, but that's it.
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You seem to have completely missed that Spain didn't exactly give France back Louisiana, Napoleon had the Spanish Crown under his control, at one point he held captive Charles' Family, Spain did not just get tired of it's possession of the Louisiana Territory, it had little choice. If you had bothered to do some research deeper, you would have found the documents laying claim, demanding return, even after the Battle of New Orleans, no Spain did not just give back Louisiana to the French.
I'd love to know about the French who moved west after the Seven Years War. I know little of my family's history except that they eventually migrated into modern day Montana
A lot of commercials. Also I have read the diaries of Lewis and Clark. Great stuff.
I do genealogy research and found stuff about one of my French ancestors who had to prove he owned the land that he owned in St. Louis after the Louisiana Purchase or forfeit his land.
They are in the province of Québec in Canada. I am one of Them.
5:19 Woah, didn't expect this kind of deep drama between colonies 😂
Quite complete overview of the subject. ^_^
Let me add that Quebec, known at the time as Lower Canada, only gain the right to officially be French and Catholic in 1791, along reverting to French civil law, through the treaty of Quebec. It was to incite French Canadians to not join the American revolutionaries, but also because there were too numerous already, plus the Scots, both the Loyalist form the 13th colonies and the ones from Scotland proper, which the British authorities hoped would boost the number of English Protestants... instead, they married French Canadians, turned Catholic and adopted French, boosting the resistance.
So yeah, Quebec was the Frenchiest place in North America by the time of the Louisiana Purchase, although there were Acadians in the Atlantic provinces and other French speakers in today's Ontario and the Prairies, too.
I wonder how many French ancestors are living in America since the Louisiana purchase?
Louisiana used French as legal language for years
The movie "Southern Comfort" (1980) sends a French "hello" to the Anglo-Saxon Murrica
Were there also French settlers in Louisville, Kentucky?
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Way down to Louisiana, close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods, among the evergreens...
Why would you put an ad just suddenly like that. I didn't continue watching the video
Very interesting
Kind of ignores there were tens of thousands of people already living there..
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Interesting how people who have no knowledge can get on line and post crap like this. The "Seven Years War" was actually called the French and Indian War here in North America. The war was primarily fought between native american tribes, American colonists, and the French. The English could not figure out how to fight against native peoples so they were ineffective. The colonists defeated the French and demanded opening up of western lands but were betrayed by the English. The French were allowed to keep their lands in exchange for other compensation. This is what led to the Revolutionary War and Independence for the U.S. Americans were already entering the lands west of the Mississippi before the purchase. France needed money and the land was vacant so they sold it cheap. The French who were present integrated into America because this was their home. People of French ancestry made many contributions as U.S. citizens.
Generally earlier the French were better at natives, but with flare ups. Better than the British & USA.
I say we should give it back to France. Anyone who has been through the Midwest long enough knows what I mean.
They paid for this territory AND did a whole treaty for northern maine so evidently what America really needed in this era was more Acadians
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I have a question how did France knew what USA said if Napoleon didn’t know English??
Back then most American presidents, politicians and diplomats could speak some French. French was the language of international diplomacy before starting to be replaced by English in the 20th century.
I know it's not part of the storyline of the Louisiana Purchase but I gotta say what happened to Florida during the leadup period and after is very confusing. It was given to the British in 1763ish. It becomes part of America after 1776, I presume. Then Spain gets it back at somepoint after ... bewildering to me.
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Well the ones in SE MI are still here haha. My great grandpa and his parents and grand parents spoke French. My Great grandpa was actually the first Frenchman in our family tree (and his siblings) to be raised with English as the first language vs French. Now my Millennial Ass only knows curse words and kindergarten French but my dads family is Mexican and I can pop off haha 🤣
No mention of the Haitian slave revolt, that forced Napoleon off the continent.