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What is Ethnocentrism?
Believing ones own ethnic group is better than another.
What is culture?
A way of life or a way of being that is shared by a group of people
What is a World View?
A way of looking at the world that reflects one’s core values. What is a World View?
How did the Haudenosaunee society work?
It was a Matrilineal society, where the Clan Mother was the head of the household. The Clan Mothers selected leaders. How did the Haudenosaunee society work?
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
They hunt game & collect plant foods rather than growing crops.
What is Imperialism?
A country extending it’s control over other countries, often using economic or military means.
What is Colonization?
The process of claiming and controlling new lands and territories for one’s homeland. (France was interested in North America, so they created New France; Britain was also interested in North America so they create Rupert’s Land and the Hudson’s Bay Company)
What are Natural Resources:
A part of nature people can use; they can include fish, land, trees, water, oil, and minerals
Who were the Couereurs de Bois?
A Canadien trader, or the “runner of the woods” They paddled on long journeys into the wilderness to trade for furs with the First Nations Later they would be called voyageurs
What was the Seigneurial System?
The farmland that the French and the Metis divided up to make river lots. They allowed families to live closer together. It also gave each farm access to the water, which was used for travel.
What is Mercantilism?
An economic system that allowed an imperial country to become rich by selling the resources taken from its colonies.
What is a Monopoly?
When only one company or a group is allowed to sell or trade a product in a certain area
What was the economy of the British colonies mainly based on?
Farming Fishing Logging
What colony was more focused on the Fur Trade?
New France
Where were French Catholics encouraged to go?
New France
What kind of goods were First Nations interested in trading for?
They valued the metal goods that came from Europe, such as pots, knives, copper wire, and guns.
What were the Europeans interested in trading for?
FUR! They wanted fox, marten, lynx, muskrat, wolf and beaver. They used them for trims on coats and jackets, however the most popular was felt hats
How did the French try to convert the First Nations?
They tried to convert them to Catholicism
Who were the Filles du Roi?
The “King’s Daughters”
Why were the “King’s Daughters” sent to New France?
Few French women were interested in living in New France. Between 1665 and 1673, the King sent 800 single women to New France to become wives
Where was Acadia?
The colonial territory was in eastern Quebec, and the Maritime provinces… (Mainly Nova Scotia)
When was the Seven Years’ War
What does Bilingualism mean?
A policy of recognizing two official languages
When was the Quebec Act passed?
1774
What did the Quebec Act ensure?
That the French language and the Canadien culture was maintained in what would later become Canada.