Lesson 3

Question 1

What is a paradigm?

Answer 1

How a person or society view the world. Explain the nature of reality, creates expectations, and provides meaning and purpose for a person’s life

Question 2

What is the arrival of Europeans to colonize North America considered by the First Nations people and why?

Answer 2

• a catastrophic event

- they redefined the way they lived

Question 3

When the Europeans arrived and influenced the First Nations, what occured?

Answer 3

a paradigm shift

Question 4

What is Mercantilism?

Answer 4

The economic systems of Britain and France. It is a system where colonies would supply the mother country with resources for the economic benefit of the mother country, not the colony.

Question 5

What isthe economic system that the British and French used during contact?

Answer 5

Mercantilism

Question 6

The use of what system in North America lead to First Nations becomining dependent on Europeans for items such as muskets, metal goods, and other non-native technology?

Answer 6

Mercantilism

Question 7

What was an essential feature of the mercantile system, used to accomplis its purposes?

Answer 7

state action

Question 8

What was the central purpose of the mercantil system?

Answer 8

to sell more than it bought and to accumulate gold bullion and raw materials

Question 9

What was the raw material wanted in New France?

Answer 9

fur

Question 10

When New France became a colony, what was its main economic role?

Answer 10

to supply furs to the mother country and to purchase manufactured products from the mother country

Question 11

What percent of the colony’s exports did the fur trade account for?

Answer 11

70%

Question 12

What is responsible for the large expansion of territory in New France?

Answer 12

the fur trade

Question 13

What evidence did the Europeans see in association with First Nations that accounted for their “inferiority”?

Answer 13

lack of technology

Question 14

To this day, the most powerful region in Canada is where?

Answer 14

the area along the St. lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes because of the ability to trade and ship goods along the St. Lawrence Seaway and over to Europe

Question 15

What is the main reason the Canada is a wealth nation?

Answer 15

the ability of our country to export numerous resources throughout the world

Question 16

What did the First Nations believe in regards to the ownership of land?

Answer 16

they believed that although specific lands could be used by a particular Nation, that Nation could not “own” the land.

Question 17

In the worldview of a First Nations, ____involving any ____ ____ or _____could not involve any transfer of “____” to the land.

Answer 17

• treaties
• First Nations
• Europeans
• title

Question 18

How did Europeans view North American land?

Answer 18

as a vast reservoir of resources to be used by those willing to put the effort into taking it

Question 19

What was the reformation?

Answer 19

it was a movement in Europe in which Catholics and Protestants became very enthusiastic about seeking new converts to Christianity.

Question 20

What were missionaries?

Answer 20

very religious people whowent to distant lands (North America) to spread Christianity. They went to North America with the goal of converting First Nations.

Question 21

What is acculturation?

Answer 21

a process of two or more cultures adapting to each other. The First Nations people had a difficult time adapting to the European societies who were arrogant, wealthy, exploitive, and rapidly expanding.

Question 22

What is assimilaton?

Answer 22

when one culture believes it is superior to another culture. The “superior” culture will use many tactics including war to change the other culture to resemble their own. this is how European colonitst dealt with the First Nations.

Question 23

What is People and the Land?

Answer 23

Every society develops a relatioonship with the land that best accommodates their own needs. The First Nations’ relationship with the land was respectful and only for fulfillment needs. The European relationship with the land was, and continues to be, exploitive and for fulfilling both needs and wants.

Question 24

What does zero-sum trade mean?

Answer 24

zero-sum trade means that wealth is finite

Question 25

Under zero-sum trade, what is meant to happen to colonies? What is their use?

Answer 25

Colonies were meant to be exploited by the mother country. Colonies should nto cost more to administer than the value of the goods they supply as they should be cash countries

Question 26

What country gained from trade in the mercantilism system?

Answer 26

New France fained from trade in the mercantilism system.