Young French women forcibly sent to New France to become the wives of colonists.
Who are the Filles du Roi?
The length of time an engagé was bound to their contract.
What is 3 years?
This early explorer of North America was a viking.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This was the first British Settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Europeans were trying to find an eastern passage to this continent when they began exploring North America.
Where is Asia?
The community of French Canadians living in Quebec, particularly before and during British colonization of North America.
Who are Canadiens?
This company controlled New France before it became a royal colony.
What is The Company of 100 Associates?
This explorer was the first to sail the St.Lawrence River.
Who is Jacque Cartier?
This was the most important export from the New England Colonies.
What is rum?
The most valuable export from New France was the fur of this animal.
What is beaver?
An economic theory that a country can accumulated wealth by importing raw materials from and exporting manufactured goods to colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
This religious group was known as the black robes.
Who are the Jesuits?
This early explorer founded Quebec City.
These colonies were called the "Breadbasket Colonies" because they produced a large amount of this export.
What is grain?
This class of people had funds and contacts to import supplies from France to New France.
What are the middle class?
Unlicensed French fur traders who travelled among and lived with First Nations of the Northwest.
Who are Coureurs de Bois?
This was the first hospital in Montreal.
What is the Hôtel-Dieu?
John Cabot found this type of fish in the waters of Newfoundland and Cape Breton.
What is Cod?
This type of labour was commonly used in the Southern Plantations.
What is slavery?
The colony of New France had conflicts with this Indigenous Group.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
An economic theory that a country can accumulated wealth by importing raw materials from and exporting manufactured goods to colonies.
What is Colonialism?
This is the ratio of men to women in New France in 1663.
What is 6:1?
This navigational instrument made European exploration of North America possible.
What is the astrolabe?
This geographical factor contributed to the Thirteen Colonies growing faster than New France
What is warm climate.
In New France, only this religious group was encouraged to settle.
What is Roman Catholic?