Chapter 2: The French in North America

Question 1

Define: Aboriginal

Answer 1

descendants of the original inhabitants of North America

Question 2

Define: Alliance

Answer 2

a union in which groups agree to trade and help each other solve disputes

Question 3

Define: Bishop

Answer 3

the head of the church in New France

Question 4

Define: Citizen

Answer 4

a member of society

Question 5

Define: Clan

Answer 5

a small village of extended families who live together, cooperative and shared resources

Question 6

Define: Colony

Answer 6

a territory controlled by another country

Question 7

Define: Consensus

Answer 7

an agreement reached by a group as a whole

Question 8

Define: Coureur de Bois

Answer 8

a Canadian trader (a runner in the woods in English), took long journeys into the wilderness to trade for furs with the First Nations, adventurers

Question 9

Define: Culture

Answer 9

A way of life shared by a group of people

Question 10

Define: Elder

Answer 10

respected member of an aboriginal communtiy

Question 11

Define: Empire

Answer 11

a network of colonies controlled by a single country

Question 12

Define: Ethnocentric

Answer 12

belief that one’s own ethnic group is superior

Question 13

Define: Francophone

Answer 13

French speaking Canadian

Question 14

Define: Governor

Answer 14

a powerful official in New France, King’s personal representative, most important figure of the Sovereign Council

Question 15

Define: Government

Answer 15

the way people organize themselves to choose a leader and make decisions

Question 16

Define: habitant

Answer 16

a Francophone farmer of New France

Question 17

Define: imperialism

Answer 17

a country extended their control over another country through economic or military means

Question 18

Define: Intendent

Answer 18

second most important figure of the Sovereign Council in charger of day-to-day affairs of the colony

Question 19

Define: Indigenous People

Answer 19

Original habitants of the given area

Question 20

Define: Jesuit

Answer 20

an order of missionairies that came to North America to convert First Nations Peoples to the Catholic religion

Question 21

Define: Monopoly

Answer 21

when only one country is allowed to trade or sell in a certain area

Question 22

Define: Natural Resources

Answer 22

a part of nature that people can use

Question 23

Define: Oral Culture

Answer 23

language, teachings or traditional stories that are memorized and passed down orally from one generation to the next

Question 24

Define: Petroglyph

Answer 24

drawing on rocks to record events and information

Question 25

Define: Pluralistic Society

Answer 25

society made up of different groups of people with its own identities, ideas, perspectives, and culture

Question 26

Define: Scurvy

Answer 26

a disease brought on of lack of vitamin C - not enough fruits and vegetables

Question 27

Define: Silk Road

Answer 27

a trade route through Asia and Eastern Europe. Used by traders to transport spices, silk, tea, proceline and prescious gems

Question 28

Define: Seigneurial System

Answer 28

a social system based on nobles (seigneurs) who rented land to farmers (habitants)

Question 29

Define: Stereotype

Answer 29

an over-generalized protrayal of people from one group: stereotypes can reflect peoples’ prejudices

Question 30

Three Sisters

Answer 30

Haudenosaunee name for corn, beans or squash