European Explorers
Answer: The main reason that early Europeans embarked on exploration was to find this
Question: What is a better and quicker trade route to Asia?
Answer: What valuable material did European hatmakers use from the New World?
Underfur from worn beaver pelts.
Answer: This French explorer was known as the "Father of New France" and established the first permanent European settlement in Canada at Québec in 1608
Question: Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Answer: The main goal of British imperialism in North America was to obtain land for this purpose
Question: What is agriculture (or farming)?
Answer: This is the ability of the body to fight off infection, which First Nations peoples lacked when exposed to European diseases, leading to massive population devastation
Question: What is immunity?
Answer: This navigator, sailing for England in 1497, claimed land for the British Crown and discovered rich fishing grounds off the coast of Newfoundland
Question: Who is Giovanni Caboto (or John Cabot)?
Answer: This First Nations group in Newfoundland, whose last known member was Shawnadithit, suffered great conflict with European fishers and ultimately became an extinct people.
Question: Who are the Beothuk?
Answer: The main imperialistic goal of the French:
Answer: Collect resources (furs) and convert First Nations to Catholicism.
Answer: The territory granted as a monopoly to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670
Question: What is Rupert's Land?
How did the introduction of guns affect the lifestyle of the Kichesiprini?
Answer: It made hunting easier and may have led to overhunting.
Answer: The Spanish monarchs who sponsored this Italian navigator's voyage in 1492, leading him to lands in the Caribbean.
Question: Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (who sponsored Christopher Columbus)?
Answer: The Mi'kmaq valued these European items for their durability and usefulness.
Question: What are metal goods (like knives, axes, pots, kettles, or needles)?
Answer: The three highest-ranking members of the Sovereign Council appointed by the King of France
Question: Who are the Governor, the Intendant, and the Bishop (of Quebec)?
How did the British view the First Nations as they expanded their settlements in North America?
Answer: They saw them as obstacles to their economic advancement and expansion.
Answer: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy maintained their population during the Beaver Wars by this practice, as thousands were dying due to war and disease
Question: What is adopting captives (or adopting people)?
Answer: Why did Cartier place a cross on Haudenosaunee land? What social concept is this an example of?
Question: What is Cartier claiming the land for France?
This is an example of imperialism.
Answer: This is an example of "sharing knowledge" between the Haudenosaunee and the French.
Answer: What is the First Nations teaching Cartier's men how to cure scurvy and survive the winter?
Answer: This group in New France had the least amount of power.
Answer: This was a major reason for British colonization, particularly for groups like the Puritans and Quakers, who wanted to escape persecution.
Question: What is religious freedom?
List at least one significant negative impact did European colonization have on the First Nations peoples?
Answer: Introduction of new diseases, disruption of traditional ways of life, increased conflicts over land and resources, and attempts at forced religious conversion.
Answer: List on of the four main reasons for European expansion.
Competition
Religion
Curiosity
Wealth
Answer: The term for when one culture believes its way of life is superior to another culture's way of life, exemplified by European attitudes toward First Nation
Question: What is Ethnocentrism?
Answer: The system established in New France in 1663 where the King granted large tracts of land along the St. Lawrence River to noblemen (seigneurs) who then recruited farmers (habitants) to work the land.
Question: What is the Seigneurial System?
Compare the population growth of New France and the Thirteen Colonies. What factors contributed to these differences?
Answer: The Thirteen Colonies had a much larger population. The goal of the Thirteen Colonies was to increase settlement and encouraged immigration. The goal of New France was the fur trade and only focused on settlers from France.
Draw the Diagram of Mercantilism.
Who benefits from mercantilism? Why?
Answer: Mercantilism was an economic system that made a country rich from its colonies. Colonies provided raw materials to the mother country, which then produced manufactured goods and sold them back to the colonies. This system benefited the mother country at the expense of the colonies.