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AP U.S. History: Diagnostic 2. How did French colonists benefit from relationships like one seen in the image?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the caste system,
- 00:07
the complex method for setting broken bones.
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All right.
- 00:12
How did French colonists benefit from relationships like the one seen in the image?
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- 00:16
And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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All right, well it wasn't just the Spanish who practiced
- 00:26
intermarriage with Native Americans.
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French settlers in North America formed these kinds of relationships, as well.
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Let's see which answer best describes those
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French friendships with benefits.
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Was a plus side of these relationships that the French
- 00:40
A - established a strict racial hierarchy within their colonies?
- 00:46
Well, no, that was the Spanish, who were pretty far south
- 00:49
of the French colonial border. So it's not A.
- 00:51
Did French colonies benefit from interracial relationships because
- 00:55
C - they gathered knowledge from the study of mixed races?
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Well, the French may have been studying landscapes and nature in their
- 01:03
colonial exploits, but they didn't really turn the lens on
- 01:06
the population in that way. So that knocks out C, as well.
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Would French colonists have profited from these
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pairings because D - they developed a large network for slave labor?
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Well, actually, the Atlantic slave trade was more the realm of
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the English, not the French.
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So it jolly well isn't D.
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That means French colonies benefitted from
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interracial relationships because B -
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they set up trade alliances that included relatively few Europeans.
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Though the mission of the French was still to gather and send goods overseas to Europe,
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they did so by creating strong alliances with
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the Native Americans through intermarriage. So B is the right answer.
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And you know those strong alliances were
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probably made even stronger by the fact that
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most of these couples had only one set of in-laws nearby.
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[ uh-huh ]
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