Exploration
They were the three main reasons European countries explored new territories.
What are gold, spreading religion, and gaining resources?
This system divided land in New France into long narrow strips rented out to farmers by seigneurs.
What is the seigneurial system?
This act passed in 1774 protected the rights and religion of French Canadians.
What is the Quebec Act?
These were the first people living on the land now called Canada.
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
This was the main economic activity in New France.
What is fur trading?
This term refers to formal agreements made between nations or groups, often to settle disputes or establish partnerships.
The main economic activity in New France during this period.
What is fur trading?
This treaty officially ended the Seven Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Two examples of Indigenous groups who interacted with European settlers in New France.
Who are the Haudenosaunee and Cree?
These individuals transported goods by canoe and helped expand the fur trade across North America.
Who are voyageurs?
This treaty, signed in 1713, gave Britain control of Acadia and Newfoundland.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
Unlicensed French fur traders were given this nickname.
Who are the Coureurs de Bois?
This proclamation in 1763 set boundaries for Indigenous territories and restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
Indigenous groups formed these types of partnerships with European powers during wars in New France.
What are miliary alliances?
This group, known as "runners of the woods," often traded independently with Indigenous Peoples.
Who are the Coureurs de Bois?
This European country established New France as a colony to expand trade and spread Christianity.
What is France?
The British took control of New France in this year after the Treaty of Paris was signed.
What is 1763?
This treaty, signed in 1713, marked the beginning of British dominance in North America by transferring key territories from France.
This proclamation established boundaries for Indigenous territories in 1763.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
What is Rupert's Land?
This act, passed in 1791, divided Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
The name of the war that ended with France ceding New France to Britain.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This act formally divided Quebec into two colonies to accommodate French and English cultural differences.
What is the Constitutional Act of 1791?
Indigenous groups supported the French or British during wars, often in exchange for these two benefits.
Indigenous Peoples traded fur for these items brought by Europeans.
What are metal tools, weapons, and textiles?