Terms
When a country takes over other lands to make its empire bigger.
What is imperialism?
One of the first French colonies in North America, founded in 1604 by Pierre Dugua. Located in present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
What is Acadia?
An agreement between 2 groups.
What is a treaty?
A place controlled by a home country.
What is a colony?
These two hearty crops were grown by the Middle Colonies.
What are wheat and corn?
When countries send people to live in and control new lands.
What is colonization?
Founded by Jacques Cartier in 1534, included parts of Quebec, Ontario, and the Great Lakes.
What is New France?
What is the difference between a treaty and a contract?
Treaties are not signed.
These were provided for home countries from colonies.
What are resources?
The Haudenosaunee suggested they and the Dutch should be called by this term instead of father and son to show they were equal.
What is brothers?
This European disease cause many deaths to the First Nations.
What is smallpox?
How many colonies were set up by the British along the east coast of what is now the United States.
What is thirteen?
The Haudenosaunee created this to symbolize the first treaty between Europeans and the Indigenous.
What is the Two Row Wampum Belt?
These three things you cannot touch were brought to colonies from their home countries.
What are language, religion and customs?
These 3 resources were important to home countries from early colonies.
What are furs, corn and timber?
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
Named after King Louis XIV, and stretched from the Great Lakes to the gulf of Mexico. It's main settlements were in New Orleans.
What is Louisiana?
An alliance between 2 or more groups of First Nations is called this.
What is a Confederacy?
Home countries tried to control this.
What is trade?
The Southern Colonies were known for growing these two crops.
What are tobacco and rice?
This agreement gave Britain control over New France.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This nickname is often given to French speaking people that moved to Louisianna.
What are Cajuns?
What do each of the lines on the Two Row Wampum Belt Symbolize?
What are a Dutch ship and a Haudenosaunee canoe?
The British made this rule which said that First Nations had rights to their land in 1763.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
Louisiana's main settlements were found along this river.
What is the Mississippi?