Lesson 5 Flashcards
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When did Samuel de Champlain set out for Acadia?
1604
What did Champlain and de Monts want to do in Acadia?
set up a trading post.
What happened between Champlain and the First Nations at first?
violent attacts and carious attempts to disembark their ship.
What did Champlain do with his dead and what was the First Nations reaction?
burried them and marked their graves with crosses then got back on his ship
the First Nations came out of his forest and dug up the dead and threw the crosses into the sea
/where did de Monts and Champlain return to and what did they build there?
the Bay of Fundy
they built a new settlement: Port-Royal in Nova Scotia
Why did de Monts go back to France?
to reassure his partners, who blamed him for investing to heavily in settlements to the detriment of the fur trade
In July of what year did Chmplain continue his journey?
1608
On what day did he find a site worthy of the setllement he wanted to create?
July 8
Why was this site what he was looking for?
he was struck by the advantages of the site: the cliffs rose 98 meters above sea level and at this point the St. Lawrence was only one kilometer wide.
What would this site later become?
Quebec City
Who did the French ally with? What did this alliance become as the English allied with the Iroquois?
- Huron
- It became a military alliance
When did the battle of Ticonderoga Point happen?
1609
What was Champlain’s role in the battle of Ticonderoga Point?
he led a handful of French soldiers and 60 Huron warriers to engage the Iroquois, south of Quebec.
What did the Huron tell Champlain to do? What was the result?
They told him how to identify the Iroquois chiefs and Champlain and one other French soldiers immediately shot and killed 6 Iroquois war chiefs. The Iroquois lost courage and fled into the woods (it was the guns). Battle was a huge vantage point because they killed the Iroquois chiefs.
New France is the name used for which places?
Quebec, New Brunswick, Acadia, and parts of Nova Scotia
Champlain needed money for New France. Who was he able to convince to send him money?
A group of 100 investors
What was the goal of Champlain?
to establish a French Empire in North America, and to convert Aboriginals to Christianity
Because of Champlains goals, what were Champlain and his company “One Hundred Associates” given control over?
the territory that France had claimed
What made it difficult to expand their empire?
the fact that the Iroquois had allied so closely with the English and continued to attack which prevented Champlain from clearing farm land and being able to really expand into New France
Which king (who came into power in 1663) was dissapointed with the progress the One Hundred Associates had made? What did he do about it?
- King Louis XIV
- He took over the land and made it a Royal Colony Nouvelle-France
- This means that every aspect of life would be under the control of the King and his appointed council
When was Nouvelle-France made an official colony of France?
1663
What happened to the One Hundred Associates?
they were cancelled and a new charter company called the West Indies Company was created
What was the biggest reason that France was struggling to sustain itself?
lack of population growth
What did Jean Talon do?
he took a census of the population
