First Nations Geography
➡This group lived on the eastern coast of Canada
Who are the Mi’kmaq?
Group system used to organize roles in society
What is a clan (dodem)?
Main goal of European exploration
What is finding a sea route to Asia (for wealth/trade)?
Why rivers were important
What is transportation and trade routes?
Taking over land and controlling it
What is imperialism?
This group lived south of the St. Lawrence River
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
This group chose and removed leaders in Haudenosaunee society
Who are clan mothers?
Tools that made exploration possible
What are compass, astrolabe, and ships?
Why Europeans wanted North America
What is wealth, resources, or land
French system of farming land along rivers
What is the seigneurial system?
This group lived around the Great Lakes
Who are the Anishinabe?
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is best described as
What is an alliance of nations under the Great Law of Peace?
DAILY DOUBLE= Founder of first permanent French settlement
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Main resource traded in New France
What are furs?
Farmer in New France
Who is a habitant?
Why location mattered to First Nations
What is access to resources (food, water, trade)?
Leaders in Mi’kmaq society
Who are Saqamaws?
Explorer sent by France in 1534
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Company created by Britain in 1670
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?
Three important titles within the New France government
Who are Governor, Intendant, Bishop?
Seasonal movement was based on this
What is food sources/weather?
Clan responsible for medicine and plant knowledge
What is the Bear clan?
Term for funding explorers
What is sponsorship?
Economic system focused on exporting resources back to the mother country
What is mercantilism?
Treaty where France gave up Acadia
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?