French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, sailed from the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence River, through the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682.
Q. Who led the expedition that was the first to reach the Mississippi River?
conquistador Hernando de Soto
Table of Contents
- Q. Who led the expedition that was the first to reach the Mississippi River?
- Q. Who was the first person to sail all the way down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico?
- Q. Who explored the Mississippi River Valley?
- Q. What two Frenchmen explored the Mississippi River?
- Q. Why did Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi?
- Q. Where did Louis Jolliet really go?
- Q. What was Louis Joliet’s goal?
- Q. Why did Marquette and Joliet turn back?
- Q. When did Joliet die?
- Q. What is the Swiss Cheese Capital of the World?
- Q. Why did the Irish come to Wisconsin?
Q. Who was the first person to sail all the way down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico?
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) was a French explorer. He was sent by King Louis XIV (14) to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. He was the first European to travel the length of the Mississippi River (1682).
Q. Who explored the Mississippi River Valley?
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle /ləˈsæl/ (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Q. What two Frenchmen explored the Mississippi River?
On May 17, 1673, Father Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Joliet set out on a four-month voyage that carried them thousands of miles through the heart of North America to explore the path of the Mississippi River.
Q. Why did Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi?
Mississippi Expedition In 1672, Jolliet was chosen by Intendant Jean Talon to lead an expedition to determine whether the Mississippi, known from Aboriginal accounts, flowed into the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean.
Q. Where did Louis Jolliet really go?
Jolliet received a Jesuit education in New France (now in Canada) but left his seminary in 1667 and went to France. The following year he returned to New France to work in the fur trade. In 1672 he was commissioned by the governor of New France to explore the Mississippi, and he was joined by Marquette.
Q. What was Louis Joliet’s goal?
In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France.
Q. Why did Marquette and Joliet turn back?
Following the river to the mouth of the Arkansas River — within 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico — Marquette and Joliet learned that it flowed through hostile Spanish domains. Fearing an encounter with Spanish colonists and explorers, they decided to return homeward by way of the Illinois River in mid-July.
Q. When did Joliet die?
May 1700
Q. What is the Swiss Cheese Capital of the World?
Monroe
Q. Why did the Irish come to Wisconsin?
Irish immigrants were more likely than other groups to move from county to county and from state to state in search of available land for farming. The average Irish immigrant had spent seven years in the United States before moving to Wisconsin.
