Names and Words
This is the origin of the name “Canada,” meaning “village” or “settlement.”
What is Kanata?
North America was divided among Spain, France, and this country before 1713.
What is Britain?
The 1713 treaty that redivided territories in North America after European war.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
Europeans came to North America to claim land, build settlements, and send these back to Europe.
What are goods?
Peace talks following the War of the Spanish Succession led to this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
The French called the Haudenosaunee by this name.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
In 1700, this king of Spain died without an heir, leading to a European war.
Who is Charles II?
This country gained large areas of land, including Newfoundland and parts of Acadia, from France.
What is Great Britain?
These strategies were used by Algonquians to feed themselves, requiring larger territories.
What are hunting and fishing?
Europeans had been arriving in North America for over this many years by 1713.
What is 200 years?
The racist word used by Europeans to unfairly describe Indigenous peoples as “uncivilized.”
What is “savage”?
The King of France who tried to take control of Spain’s territories in the early 1700s.
Who is Louis XIV?
A reason the French and British still disagreed over land after the treaty.
What is that the land was difficult to map?
Europeans competed over North America for land, goods, and this activity.
What is building settlements?
Many European countries, including the Dutch Republic, joined Queen Anne to fight against this country.
What is France?
The Haudenosaunee Six Nations speak this language.
What is Iroquois?
The thirteen-year war in Europe over the Spanish throne, ending in a treaty that affected North America.
What is the War of the Spanish Succession?
Despite the treaty, Europeans had colonized, killed, and enslaved Indigenous people since this century.
What is the 1600s?
The French system of dividing land among settlers, managed by seigneurs, with farmers paying a small fee.
What is the seigneurial system?
Part of the Treaty of Utrecht stated that Europeans should not disturb these people.
Who are the Indigenous peoples?
The Huron (Wyandot) shared land with this Indigenous group and farmed corn, beans, and squash.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
He ruled the Dutch Republic at the time of the War of Spanish Succession.
Who is William III of Orange?
After the Treaty of Utrecht, these two nations grouped together against the British.
Who are the First Nations and the French
Europeans wanted these three major resources from North America.
What are fish, fur, and timber.
Before the Treaty of Utrecht, this was a major source of conflict between France and Britain in North America.
What is land ownership?