Terms Flashcards
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Huron/Wendat
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- St. Lawrence Colony (Similar Land)
- War: Champlain + Haudenosaunee
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The Acadians
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- Port Royal (Acadia)
- One of the first french settlements in NA
- Shows the history of British/ French Conflicts affects on NA with how it was destroyed, rebuilt, seized and returned
- seen as spies from France and discriminated, despite being neutral
- mass deported around the colonies
- almost genocide
- no legal statement or apology (Royal Proclamation)
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League of the Haudenosaunee
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- New Amsterdam Area
- Five Nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca
- Matriarchal Family Structure (Longhouse, sedentary)
- Yearly Meetings of Leaders
- Instrumental in Fur Trade
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The Filles du Roi
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- Called the King’s Daughters
- 770 (approx 800) sent to Canada by King Louise 14th
- Impoverished, orphaned, unmarried
- Population Growth
- Aided Female integration into society (nuns helping them, dowry and marriage to settlers)
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The Quebec Act
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- An act that shifted a course to acceptance of french culture in Canada
- It allowed for thee practish of their rights and practice of Roman Catholic
- expanding of Boundries
- retention of French Civil Law
- bringing back Seigneurs
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The Indian Act
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- An act introduced in 1876 with the goals to assimilate
- Generalized their cultures into one identity to make it easier to fit them under law
- Creation of Reserves and Residential Schools
- Privledges of citizenship also not offered
- residential schools were law madated
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Marie-Joseph Angelique
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- Canadian Slave
- urban areas, servants to elites
- was promised freedom after masters death, widow wanted to keep her (sell her)
- Angelique threatened burning, tried running away with lover, indentured servant of widow, burnt down bed to run, was caught
- Two months later set of houses burnt down, Panni slave (hear) and Widow niece (saw going upstairs with coal)
- tortured, shattered feet, hanged
- show dark side of Canadian slavery
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Mercantilism
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- practise of imperial trade where colonies trade with their home country raw materials in return for processed goods like tools, textiles etc
- replaced by free trade when colonies became independant
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Numbered Treaties
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- treaties signed between Indigenous people and the Government to agree for Westward Expansion for the sake of the Pacific Railway and settlers.
- They were seen differently between the two parties
- Indigenous people say it as protection throguh alliance/ agreement
- Government saw it as a way to avoid war and allow settlement
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Rupert’s Land
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- Main area of fur trade and HBC
- Had a lot of economic potential
- together and buy it
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The North-West Company
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- Founded in 1777 in Montreal
- Trading company whcih adapted to local customs and expectations of trade
- Marriage according to the custom of the country/ a la facon du pays
- Lead to Metis People
- Absorbed/ mixed with Hudson’s bay company
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Country marriages/ marriage a la facon du pays
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- approach to marriage with reflected a more practical and flexible way of marriage
- Did not need to be done through church or state
- Between french trader and Indigenous women
- Helpful to fur trade
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The National Committee of the Metis
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Prohibition of Alcohol
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The Northwest Rebellion
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- Resistance movement by Metis people with Louis Riel
- loss of land, buffalo, treaties leaving them with little land (Quebec)
