St. Lawrence River

(noun)

A large waterway flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Examples of St. Lawrence River in the following topics:

  • The French Empire

    • Lawrence River, and to investigate whether Asian lands could be reached from the north .
    • Lawrence River Region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.
    • Croix, St.
    • Kitts, St.
    • Lawrence River Region for France and established friendly relations with the American Indians.

  • New France and Louisiana

    • French fishing fleets, however, continued to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St.
    • Lawrence River.
    • French merchants soon realized the St.
    • Lawrence region was full of valuable fur-bearing animals, especially the beaver, which were becoming rare in Europe.
    • France ceded the rest of New France, except the islands of St.

  • European Empires in North America

    • Raleigh himself never visited North America, although he led expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to South America's Orinoco River basin in search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado.
    • Later, in 1534, Francis sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St.
    • Lawrence River, to investigate whether Asian lands could be reached from the north.
    • He explored some of northern Canada, established friendly relations with the American Indians, and discovered that the St.
    • Lawrence River region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.

  • The Western Lands

    • Only a few thousand French migrated to Canada; these habitants settled in villages along the St.
    • Lawrence river, building communities that remained stable for long stretches; they did not leapfrog west the way the British did.
    • The Dutch set up fur trading posts in the Hudson River valley, followed by large grants of land to rich landowning patroons who brought in tenant farmers to create compact, permanent villages.
    • The French and Indian Wars of the 1760s resulted in a complete victory for the British, who took possession of the lands west to the Mississippi River, which had formerly been claimed by the French but were largely inhabited by American Indian tribes.

  • The War in the North

    • The British scored an important early success when their detachment at St.
    • The British were potentially most vulnerable over the stretch of the St.
    • Lawrence River where it formed the frontier between Upper Canada and the United States.
    • During the early days of the war, there was illicit commerce across the river.
    • Over the winter of 1812 and 1813, the Americans launched a series of raids from Ogdensburg on the American side of the river, which hampered British supply traffic up the river.

  • Exploration and Conquest of the New World

    • Spain formed the settlement of St.
    • St.
    • French habitants, or farmer-settlers, eked out an existence along the St.
    • Lawrence River.
    • The Dutch in New Netherland confined their operations to Manhattan Island, Long Island, the Hudson River Valley, and what later became New Jersey.

  • Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga

    • Leger would move down the Mohawk River valley as a tactical diversion.
    • Lieutenant Colonel St.
    • Lawrence and crossed Lake Ontario, arriving at Oswego without incident.
    • They took most of St.
    • St.

  • African American Migration

    • The Exodus of 1879, also known as the Kansas Exodus or the Exoduster Movement, refers to the mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
    • Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas only to be stranded in St.
    • Black churches in St.
    • Louis, together with Eastern philanthropists, formed the Colored Relief Board and the Kansas Freedmen's Aid Society to help those stranded in St.

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

    • Despite three centuries of European emigration, North America beyond the Mississippi River had remained largely untouched.
    • Establishing a river route from St.
    • Having gathered woodsmen from across the country for the expedition, Lewis and Clark set out from St.
    • Louis in the summer of 1804, rowing and sailing in long-boats up the Missouri River.
    • They returned to St.

  • The Treaty of Paris

    • Granting fishing rights to United States fishermen in the Grand Banks, off the coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
    • Great Britain and the United States were each to be given perpetual access to the Mississippi River.