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The Emergence of New France

Explorations

Question: Name three European explorers who explored the world between 1000 CE and 1600 CE.
Answer: Leif Ericson, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Ferdinand Magellan

Question: What was the Silk Route?
Answer: An ancient network of trade and cultural transmission. 

Question: Name three of the men who explored North America between 1630 and 1750.
Answer: Jean Nicollet, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, Pierre Lemoyne D'Iberville, Pierre Gaultier deVarennes et de la Vérendrye.

Question: Who founded Quebec city? In what year?
Answer: Samuel de Champlain in 1608.

Question: Name two reasons for the Exploration of the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Answer: Political
Commercial
Technological
Religious



Society of New France

Question: What are the two types of colony? What type was New France? 
Answer: Trade and Settlement. New France was a trading colony.

Question: What are the steps of the Fur Trade?
Answer:
 1-Furs are exchanged between the First Nations and the French
 2-Fur is shipped to France
 3-Fur is transformed into hats
 4-Furhats are sold in Europe


Question: The Natives saw advantages in trading with the Europeans. Give one advantage.
Answer:
 Thatway they could obtain several products that they did not have access tootherwise. Such as certain types of cloth, cauldrons and weapons.


Question: On the board, draw the social hierarchy of New France in the 18th century. 
Answer:

Question: What were three things the French colonists learned from the Natives?
Answer: How to make fur coats and moccasins to protect themselves against the cold.
New means of transportation: Canoes, toboggans, snowshoes.
How to use certain medicinal plants.



Church

Question: Who founded Montréal? In what year?
Answer: Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance in 1642.

Question: Why did the French put so much effort in trying to convert Natives to Christianity?
Answer: Because they believed that it would make it much easier to co-exist if they shared the same religion. 

Question: What was the Native's response to the efforts of the Jesuits to convert them to Christianity?
Answer: They did not welcome the French's religion. However, a few individuals did convert. 

Question: In the 18th century, the Church had five political roles in the colony. Give three of them?


Answer: 1- They had a representative in the sovereign council.
2- Because of their knowledge of Aboriginal culture and languages, they were often part of diplomatic negotiations.
3- Missionaries who lived in Native villages promoted the interests of France.
4- The Church served as the spokesperson for the State.
5- The priests maintained the registers of acts of civil status (births, marriages, deaths)


Question: What place did the Church take in the colonists' daily life in the 18th century?
Answer: A central one. The church was a gathering place and Sunday mass constituted a significant aspect of social life. 

Chartered Companies

Question: Around 1630, why was the colony struggling? 
Answer: Low population, English threat and Iroquois threat

Question: What is a Chartered company? 
Answer:
 Achartered companies is an association of merchants who financed trade voyagesto Asiaand/or North America whose main goal is to make profit.


Question: What is the seigneurial system?
Answer: A system of land division in which the land is divided in long narrow rectangular pieces perpendicular from a river allocated to a seigneur who divided them into censives and gave them to peasants in exchange of a part of their crops.

Question: What were two things the Company of One Hundred Associates did to make profit?
Answer: Explored the territory
Created alliances with the First Nations
Built trading posts


Question: What were the three objectives for the Company of One Hundred Associates targeted by the State to develop New France?
Answer: Evangelize Aboriginal peoples
Exploit natural resources
Settle the colony


Royal Government

Question: Why was the Royal Government implemented? 
Answer: Because the Company of One Hundred associates failed to fulfil the mission it was originally given by the State, to settle the colony and evangelize Aboriginal peoples. 

Question: Who was Jean Talon?
Answer: He was the First Intendant of New France. He was responsible for internal affairs, the police, military supplies, justice, finance, administration, economic development and settlement.


Question: What did Talon do to diversify the economy of New France?
Answer:
Went against some of the mercantilist policies and established some industries.
Tannery at Pointe-Lévy in 1668
Brewery in 1670
Shipyard near Quebec City.


Question: Who were the Filles du Roy?
Answer: Young women who were sent to New France at the State's expense in order to marry colonists and found families. The goal was to grow the population of New France.

Question: Draw on the board the political structure of the Royal Government. 
Answer: