Chapter Three Flashcards
Definition: Seigneurie
Large plots of land owned by seigneurs
Definition: Paysan
Another word for Habitants
Definition: Corvee(4)
Clearing land planting crops and building a house and paying to grind grain
Definition: Coureur de bois
Working independently, often legally
Definition: Voyageur
Men hired to paddle trade goods and furs in and out of the great lakes
Purposes of European countries (5)
Dominate other regions Supplied people with raw resources Sold manufactured goods Establish control Become rich
New France government Structure
King of France
Governor Intendant Bishop and Council of New France
Colonists
Religions in France were…
French and Catholic
Economy in New France was based on…
Fur Trade
Definiton: Clergy
Member of the Catholic Church
The fur trade encouraged the growth of which colony?
New France
As a result of the epidemic the Haudenosaunee began..
Adopting captives
Which European colony had the largest population
The thirteen colonies
Tye sovereign council was established to rule…
New France
Who was Marie-Claude Chamois?
She was 14 when the king gave her money to start a new life, she married Francois Frigon and had seven children. She followed the FN in their way of life because she thought they were experts at living in Canada.