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.

Iberville and Bienville

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.

Cassette Girls(Page 48)

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 prepared the cannons used to protect the fort.

French soldiers (Pages 50-51)

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.