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Jacques Cartier goals were to lead an expedition westward across the Atlantic Ocean to explore the northern reaches of North America in pursuit of discovering gold, spices, and a passage to Asia

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Was the first to name the territory as Canada. Was one of the first to recognize the new world as a separate land mass

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During Cartier first voyage, he kidnaped two sons of an Iroquian chief. During his second voyage, he kidnapped the chief himself to take back to France. During his third voyage he had to abandon a settlement due to disease and hostile natives

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Jacques Cartier lost some of his men during the voyages and lost settlers to Indian attack

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laid the basis for later french claims to North America. He also named Canada

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His legacy holds strong with few controversies