Based on the passage, the correct answer is: Settlers relied on water routes for transportation. The text highlights the importance of the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway for explorers and the establishment of forts, trading posts, and missions along these routes, indicating their reliance on water for movement and trade.
"France took the lead in colonizing the Upper Midwest region. From the
early sixteenth century on, French soldiers, missionaries and fur traders
left their slight mark upon the St. Lawrence valley, the upper Great Lakes
and points west. For the early French explorers, the more continent they
discovered the more their hopes were frustrated. They had hoped that the
vast St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway was part of a Northwest
Passage to the wealth of the Orient. The French presence was asserted
by a network of forts, trading posts and missions dotting the lake and river
routes traversing the continental interior."
—Library of Congress
Use the passage to answer the question.
Based on your text and this reading, why was land near water so
important for French settlers?
(1 point)
Settlers relied on water routes for transportation.
Settlers used water routes to hunt for food.
Settlers depended on water from rivers and lakes for their crops.
Settlers continued to look for a Northwest Passage across the continent
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