What is History
What is history?
An account of the past.
- record of what came before
List the 6 historical thinking concepts.
Historical significance, Evidence, COntinuity and Change, Cause and Consequence, Historical Perspective, Ethical Dimensions.
The First People's worldview can be described as holistic. What does this mean?
Concerned more with connection to land and others instead of personal gain.
What are the four main reasons for exploration?
Competition, Colonization, Mercantilism, Religion.
Who were two French men associated with the creation of New France?
Jaques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Pierre du Gua de Monts
List a purpose and a challenge when studying history.
Purpose:
Learn why things are the way they are
Learn how to avoid a problem
Learn how to solve a problem
Challenge:
Lack of primary sources
Lack of perspectives on the matter
Bias in the person investigating
What was one historical perspective of the explorers when encountering First Peoples in Canada?
- Wanting to form relationships to further their goals of trade and settlement.
- Terra Nullius, this land belonged to no one so it was theirs for the taking.
What are 5 ways in which we can see how the First Peoples structured their world?
Kinship communities, community size, traditional education, roles and responsibilities, justice.
Most countries were competing for a route to __________ because _______________.
Asia, get resources that could not be reached over land.
What was the name of the first permanent settlement in New France? (hint... it is still around today)
Quebec
Provide 3 characteristics of Essential Questions.
Lead to more questions.
Cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.
Are open-ended. They do not have a singular right or wrong answer.
Require you to make your own choices, decisions and judgement
List three primary sources that could help us learn more about the exploration to North America.
Oral stories handed down, navigational artifacts, log books from the ships, documents from monarchs about explorations, remains from settlements, etc.
Provide 4 characteristics of First People's education
- provide a worldview, taught by whole community, learned by doing, holistic, taught through story telling, analyzed dreams/visions for meaning.
Provide 3 details about the French coming to Canada.
Locate northwest passage, Idea of gold, silver and copper led to the first and many return trips
1534, 1608
Landed at Gulf of St. Lawrence, Current day Montreal, Newfoundland
Returned home to tell of what was found (brought First Peoples to France), Started small settlements, but did not grow quickly
Jacques Cartier, Samuel Champlain
Describe the different reception Cartier experienced between his first and second encounters with Donnacona and the First Peoples in the area.
Welcomed: First Peoples provided assistance when men were ill, Cartier taught Donnacona's sons French to help with further exploration.
Rejected: Returned with no survivors (First People's he captured), had to abandon settlement.
What is a single-story narrative?
A narrative that presents only one perspective, and generally leads to stereotypes.
- No longer based on resources available.
- Moved on to reservations, no say in community size or where they are located.
Provide an example of how the First Peoples dealt with both less serious and more serious offences.
More serious: hunt alone, live isolated
Explain how mercantilism led to the development of settlements in Canada.
Countries came to find raw materials that could be made into goods that would then be sold. By creating settlements allowed for more permanence to create relationships, trade routes, etc.
Explain two possible reasons for the current licence plate in Quebec, "Je me souviens."
Remember that they were here before the British.
Remember that the British kicked them out.
Remember their strong history of explorers.
What was the cause of the Seven Year War? What was the consequence for the French, English and First Peoples?
British and French were fighting over land.
British took over the colonies in North America, French were either expelled or forced to sign an oath of allegiance to Britain, the First Peoples lost more of their land.
Discuss 3 separate ways to explain how the First Peoples came to be in Canada.
Creation Story (Turtle Island), Land Bridge Theory, Solutrean Theory that they walked over across the Atlantic Ocean during ice age, boat from Europe to North America.
List 3 ways in which the First Peoples assisted explorers.
Taught about local medicines, and showed them ho two navigate on the land/waterways, provided them with raw materials in exchange fro trade goods.
Who were the Acadians, and why were they forced to leave?
Acadia was a French settlement in Eastern Canada. The British started to invade French land, men were arrested and women/children were kicked out.
This was to avoid a future uprising between the French and British.