This french explorer claimed much of what is now canada for his native country.

He is Jacques Cartier. French pilot Jacques Cartier was conceived on December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, and was sent by King Francis I to the New World looking for wealth and another course to Asia in 1534. His investigation of the St. Lawrence River enabled France to make a case for lands that would move toward becoming Canada

South carolina was so angry about the election of lincoln that they seceded from the union on december 20, 1860. they attacked fort sumter later, on april 12, 1861.