Chapter 1
True or False: Canada is made up of only 4 Indigenous Groups
False
True or False: Samuel du Champlain founded Quebec
True
What language did people speak in New France?
French
Which countries are in Great Britain?
England, Scotland, Wales
Who were the first Europeans to arrive in Canada?
The Vikings
The indigenous people from northern Canada are known as what?
Inuit
What is the system of countries extending their control over other nations called?
Imperialism
A long overland trade route that crossed through Asia and Eastern Europe was called what?
The Silk Road
Before the thirteen colonies became the United States, who first colonized the thirteen colonies?
Britain
What were the two main fur trading companies in North America?
NorthWest Company
Husdons Bay Company
The Metis are a mix between what two groups?
Indigenous and European
What river did Jacques Cartier first sail down in Canada?
St. Lawrence River
Why did France build the colony of New France?
Because the king of France wanted to access more fish and beavers.
What were the French and British looking for when they found the Americas?
A faster route to Asia
Believing your way of life is better than others is called what?
Ethnocentrism
What is a consensus?
An a agreement reached by a group as a whole
What does Monopoly mean?
When only ONE company is allowed to sell or trade things at that area
Which country were the Acadians originally from?
France
What’s the difference between push and pull factors?
Push factors force people to leave their homeland, and pull factors influence people to migrate to a certain country
What was the most important mode of transportation in the fur trade?
Canoe
What did the Indigenous call the three crops grown together of Beans, Corns and squash
Three Sisters
900 women who were sent to New France to become wives were called?
Filles du Rois
Fur traders who were the first to travel outside French settlements in North America were called what?
Couriers de bois
Mercantilism is what?
The process of getting rich by selling its resources from its colonies?
Who was involved in the signing of the Great Peace of Montreal?
French and indigenous