1. Tomorrow’s social studies test
Let’s review
Tomorrow’s social studies test

2. Early explorers of north america
Why did they want to explore?
Indies (India, Japan, China) – Silk and spices for cheaper (don’t need to pay taxes)
What dangers were there in exploring?
Christopher Columbus
From Spain – 3 ships – Found the Caribbean Islands
Main goal?
Created the idea of slavery
What does this teach us about history and what we should be careful of?

3. Early explorers of north america
John Cabot
From England; Wanted to find the Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage: A way to get to the Indies through North America
Business people paid for his trip; Found Newfoundland and lots of fish!
Disappeared on his second trip

4. Early explorers of north america
Jacques Cartier
French Explorer – looking for the Northwest Passage
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Three Trips
Met Aboriginal groups
Called them ‘wild and savage’
Traded with them
Haudenosaunee Group – Donnacona [leader]
Put up a large cross to take their land
The Name ‘Canada’
Scurvy – How did they cure them?
Kidnapping
Setting up a colony (definition)

5. Early explorers of north america
Jacques Cartier
Haudenosaunees didn’t trust him anymore
Colony failed – He wasn’t in charge of it though
Brought back quartz instead of gold (fool’s gold)
Retired

6. Jacques Cartier First Voyage: Second Voyage: Third Voyage:
Newfoundland is an island
North America is found (lots of resources for France!)
Second Voyage:
Lots of rivers he could use to travel
The cure for scurvy
Wants to build a colony
Third Voyage:
Tried to build a colony; didn’t work  WHY?

7. Fur trade What is a trading post?
Where was the first fur trading post?
Tadoussac
What did Europeans want? What did Aboriginal people want?
Europeans: Fur and felt (hats, fashionable clothing), corn, beans, squash
Aboriginal people: Metal, tools, weapons, clothing, alcohol

8. Fur trade How did this change the Aboriginal way of life?
Different relationship with Nature
Hunting was the most important thing
Competition
Choosing a leader
How did this change European life?
Learnt how to use different tools (canoes, toboggans, moccasins, snowshoes)
Preservation skills
Smoking, Salting, Drying

9. Different technologies
Diary/Log, compass, log line, sandglass

10. HBC HBC: Set up by the English near the Hudson’s Bay
Hudson’s Bay Company
Set up by the English near the Hudson’s Bay
Near rivers and the bay so that people could travel there easily
Did not travel around to trade (unlike the French)
Just interested in furs and not colonizing
Still exists today:
The Bay, Sears, Zellers