Indigenous People
Iroquoian groups lived in these large homes that held several families.
What are the longhouses?
This large river in North America was explored by Jacques Cartier and became a key route for French settlement.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
He founded Québec City in 1608.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This French policy required colonies to provide raw materials and buy goods from the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
Early humans crossed this land bridge from Asia into North America at the end of the last Ice Age.
What is the Bering Strait?
This nation was the main Indigenous ally of the French in the early fur trade.
Who are the Huron-Wendat?
This French explorer made three voyages to North America in the 1530s.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
These women were sent to increase the population of the colony.
Who are the Filles du Roy?
This term refers to when a single company has exclusive rights to buy and sell a product.
What is a Monopoly?
Around the year 1000, these Norse explorers reached North America and built a settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows.
Who are the Vikings?
The Inuit lived this type of lifestyle, moving in response to seasonal resources.
What is nomadic?
He reached the Caribbean in 1492 while searching for Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This first intendant of New France helped organize the colony’s economy and population growth.
Who is Jean Talon?
his tax, often paid in grain, was given by Catholics to the Church in New France.
What is the tithe?
This deadly disease devastated populations around the world before the vaccine for it existed.
What is smallpox?
These three crops made up the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Columbus sailed west across this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
She co-founded the Hôtel-Dieu hospital to care for the sick.
Who is Jeanne Mance?
This land division system gave settlers long, narrow plots along rivers.
What is the seigneurial system?
This enormous royal palace became the symbol of absolute monarchy under Louis XIV.
What is Versailles?
Many Native creation stories refer to North America by this name.
What is Turtle Island?
Europeans originally wanted to find a sea route to Asia to access goods that were only possible to get through this ancient trade network.
What is the Silk Road?
Indigenous leader kidnapped by Cartier.
Who is Donnacona?
This was the original name of the 1642 settlement later known as Montreal.
What is Ville-Marie?
This German monk started the Protestant Reformation by posting his 95 Theses in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?