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The French (Pages 46-47). In 1702 the Le Moyne brothers (Iberville and Bienville) established a French fort and settlement called Fort Louis. The village outside the fort was called La Mobile . It was located on a bluff twenty-seven miles up the Mobile River from Mobile Bay. .
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The French(Pages 46-47) • In 1702 the Le Moyne brothers (Iberville and Bienville) established a French fort and settlement called Fort Louis. The village outside the fort was called La Mobile. It was located on a bluff twenty-seven miles up the Mobile River from Mobile Bay.
The French(Pages 46-47) • This placed the French closer to the Indians so that they could trade knives, tools, beads, and cotton cloth for fur pelts and deerskins.
Cassette Girls(Page 48) • In 1704 Iberville asked the French government to send young available women to come to the Louisiana colony to marry the colonist. • They brought their clothes in little trunks called “cassettes” and were called “The Cassette Girls.”
Cassette Girls(Page 48) • The young ladies did not like the living conditions and were tired of eating cornbread in the colony and they rebelled. • This rebellion is called the Petticoat Insurrection.
French Forts in Alabama(Pages 49-50) • In 1711 Mobile was moved from Twenty-seven Mile Bluff to a permanent site at the mouth of the Mobile River. It was also called Fort Louis. Later a brick fort was built and named Fort Conde. • In 1717 Fort Toulouse, located on the Coosa River, was constructed to trade with the Indians and as a military outpost against the English.
French Forts in Alabama(Page 50) • In 1736 the French constructed Fort Tombecbe on the Tombigbee River. This fort was to be a forward French outpost for a war against the Chickasaw.
French soldiers (Pages 50-51) French soldiers prepared the cannons used to protect the fort.
Fort Toulouse (Pages 50-51) • Fort Toulouse was a trading fort for the Indians. • They would camp outside the fort when they came to trade.
End of the French Control (Pages 50-51) • From 1688-1782 wars occurred that involved France, England, and Spain. • In 1763 England won the French and Indian War. France gave up all of the land it controlled east of the Mississippi River which included Alabama. • Mobile was now controlled by England.
Geography and History(Pages 52-53) • The French used the rivers as highways into Alabama. The confluence of two rivers, or the place where they flow together, was a good place for a fort or town. • What fort was built in such a place?
Geography and History(Pages 52-53) • Native Americans learned that the Fall line was another good place to build a town. At the fall line the land becomes hilly, and rocks, shoals, and shallow water keep boats from traveling up river. • What 3 Alabama towns are located on the fall line?
The English in Alabama(Pages 54-55) • The English also wanted to trade goods for deerskins and animal furs. • They established a colony north of Fort Toulouse called Fort Okfuskee. • The English had an advantage over the French because Great Britain had more factories. They could manufacture more and better trade goods.
The English in Alabama(Pages 54-55) • Lachlan McGillivray was a trader from Scotland. He came to Alabama to trade with the Indians. He met an Indian girl, married her, and built his home and a trading post at Little Tallassee on the Coosa River. Later they had a son, Alexander McGillivray, who became in important leader of the Creek Indians.
