Vocabulary
New France
Early Exploration
British Colonization
Wild Card
100

Young French women forcibly sent to New France to become the wives of colonists.

Who are the Filles du Roi?

100

The length of time an engagé was bound to their contract.

What is 3 years?

100

This early explorer of North America was a viking.

Who is Leif Erikson?

100

This was the first British Settlement in North America.

What is Jamestown?

100

Europeans were trying to find an eastern passage to this continent when they began exploring North America.

Where is Asia?

200

The community of French Canadians living in Quebec, particularly before and during British colonization of North America.

Who are Canadiens?

200

This company controlled New France before it became a royal colony.

What is The Company of 100 Associates?

200

This explorer was the first to sail the St.Lawrence River.

Who is Jacque Cartier?

200

This was the most important export from the New England Colonies.

What is rum?

200

The most valuable export from New France was the fur of this animal.

What is beaver?

300

An economic theory that a country can accumulated wealth by importing raw materials from and exporting manufactured goods to colonies.

What is Mercantilism?

300

This religious group was known as the black robes.

Who are the Jesuits?

300

This early explorer founded Quebec City.

Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300

These colonies were called the "Breadbasket Colonies" because they produced a large amount of this export.

What is grain?

300

This class of people had funds and contacts to import supplies from France to New France.

What are the middle class?

400

Unlicensed French fur traders who travelled among and lived with First Nations of the Northwest.

Who are Coureurs de Bois?

400

This was the first hospital in Montreal.

What is the Hôtel-Dieu?

400

John Cabot found this type of fish in the waters of Newfoundland and Cape Breton.

What is Cod?

400

This type of labour was commonly used in the Southern Plantations.

What is slavery?

400

The colony of New France had conflicts with this Indigenous Group.

Who are the Haudenosaunee?

500

An economic theory that a country can accumulated wealth by importing raw materials from and exporting manufactured goods to colonies.

What is Colonialism?

500

This is the ratio of men to women in New France in 1663.

What is 6:1?

500

This navigational instrument made European exploration of North America possible.

What is the astrolabe?

500

This geographical factor contributed to the Thirteen Colonies growing faster than New France

What is warm climate.

500

In New France, only this religious group was encouraged to settle.

What is Roman Catholic?

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