Arrival in Canada

Question 1

Where did the Vikings come from?

Answer 1

Norway

Question 2

Who came first Cabot or the Vikings?

Answer 2

Vikings around the year 1000

Question 3

What year did Cabot set sail?

Answer 3

1497 from Britain sent by Henry 7th

Question 4

What did Cabot call the place he found?

Answer 4

New Found Land & claimed for England

Question 5

What did Cabot discover off the coast of New Found Land?

Answer 5

The Grand Banks which is a HUGE fishing area

Question 6

Who came first Cartier or John Cabot?

Answer 6

Cabot = British got here first

Cartier was French & he came 35 years later

Question 7

How many trips did Cartier make?

Answer 7

Three, first in 1534

Question 8

Which french guy came 10 years before Cartier?

Answer 8

Verrazano in 1524 - discovered it was a continent not just a bunch of islands.

Question 9

What did Cartier do on his first trip?

Answer 9

Trying to find the North West Passage, he met the Iroquois, claimed what he found for France, then kidnapped the chief’s two sons and took them back to France

Question 10

What did Cartier find on his second trip?

Answer 10

He used the two Iroquois chief’s sons to navigate up the Saint Lawrence river, where he got to Stadacona (present day Quebec City) and Hochelaga (present day Montreal)

Question 11

What happened once they tried to winter in the new land?

Answer 11

they got scurvy (lack of vitamin c) and the native people helped them to use spruce needles to make tea. Then Cartier kidnaps 9 other Iroquois and takes them back to France where they all die

Question 12

What was Cartier’s failure on his last trip?

Answer 12

He thought he found diamonds and gold, but it was just fools gold ( iron pyrite) and quartz

Question 13

Who came first Samuel Champlain or Jacques Cartier?

Answer 13

Cartier

Question 14

Who came first Jacques Cartier or Cabot?

Answer 14

Cabot

Question 15

Who came first Vikings or Champlain?

Answer 15

Vikings

Question 16

What year and where did Champlain establish the new colony?

Answer 16

1605 in Port Royal which is now Nova Scotia.

Question 17

Why was Champlain given a sweet deal from the French?

Answer 17

He was allowed to have a monopoly on the fur trade if he successfully created a new colony because so many people had failed to make a go of it in the new colony

Question 18

What did Champlain do during his trip in 1608?

Answer 18

Allies with the Algonkians & Montagnais First Nations against the Iroquois First Nations and forms a post – what is today Quebec City in 1608

Question 19

Who found New Foundland first? Humphrey Gilbert or Cabot?

Answer 19

Cabot in 1497, but Gilbert claimed it again for England in 1583

Question 20

What came first the Battle of the Plains of Abraham or the Treaty of Utrecht?

Answer 20

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713

Question 21

What very important piece of Canadian history happened in 1759?

Answer 21

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

Question 22

What is imperialism?

Answer 22

The policy of extending control over a region or regions by one nation. Imperialism usually involves both economic and political control
Never underestimate the power of self-interest!

Question 23

What is a monopoly?

Answer 23

the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
“his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs”

Question 24

What is colonialism?

Answer 24

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

Question 25

What is Mercantilism?

Answer 25

• belief that there is a certain amount of wealth in the world and that it is in their best interest to get it all.
• a country achieves wealth by producing items and selling them at a profit.
• spend a small amount on raw materials (such as furs) and sell the products you make (hats) at a big profit

Question 26

What is the Treaty of Utrecht? hint- it’s a peace treaty

Answer 26

In North America, France gave its claims to Newfoundland and the Hudson’s Bay Company territories in Rupert’s Land to Great Britain.
The Acadian colony of Nova Scotia was given to Britain. The formerly partitioned island of Saint Kitts was also ceded in its entirety to Britain.
Trade with the Indians was opened to traders of all nations.
France retained some North American possessions, including Île-Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, as well as Île Royale (now Cape Breton Island), on which it erected the Fortress of Louisbourg.

Question 27

What is the seigneurial system?

Answer 27

The seigneurial system was an institutional form of land distribution established in New France in 1627 and officially abolished in 1854. In New France, 80 per cent of the population lived in rural areas governed by this system of land distribution and occupation.

Question 28

Who was Jean Talon?

Answer 28

Talon attempted to change the economic base of the colony from fur-trading to agriculture, but found this could not be accomplished without a larger population.

Talon arranged for settlers to come to New France, including over 800 women known as the filles du roi – the king’s daughters.

Question 29

Who were the habitants?

Answer 29

early French settlers in Canada (especially Quebec) or Louisiana.