Unit 2 October 18th Flashcards
What were all coins from France made of?
Precious metals:
Gold, silver
What were colonies tasked with?
Providing their mother country (France) with natural resources
What happened to the recourses transported After the colonies collected it ?
They turned it into good, then sold on the European market, France acquires gold/precious metals from it
Do colonies earn a lot of money? Why?
No because France takes all of their goods,
France exploits them
What were the steps of mercantilism ?
- Setting up colonies
- taking th natural resources and sending them back to france
- They turned the recourses into goods
- They sold the goods on the European market
What would be the reason to build a settlement Colonies over a trading post?
Established to exploit raw materials and settle colonists
Europeans settled permentally in this territory
Europeans formed a organized society
Example - the foundation of Quebec City
What would be the reason to build a trading post over a settlement Colonie?
Established to trade raw materials
Trading posts were occupied by Europeans on a temporary basis
Example - Trading post at Tadoussac
What did King Henri the 4th realize? What did he do to achieve this?
The need to establish a colony in New France in order to profit from the booming fur trade? He granted merchants or chartered companies a monopoly on the fur trade
What did the colonization of New France heavily depend on?
The développement of the economic relationship between the King of rance and the merchants.
What did the merchants give in return of the king giving them a monopoly on the fur trade?
Bring colonists to New France in order to populate the colony
Who was one of the first merchants who was granted a monopoly on the fur trade?
Pierre Du Gua de Monts—
What was the condition that De Monts monopoly was renewed?
That he established a settlement colony in Vallée du Saint LAurent
Who did Du Monts trust to help set up a colony in Vallée de Saint Laurent?
Samuel De Champlain
Who is credited with establishing Quebec City in 1608?
Champlain
Why did Du Mont/Champlain decide to settle in Quebec
- The narrowness of the rive made it easy to monitor incoming and outgoing ships
- It was on a territory frequented by native people
- Riviere St Charles served served as a water way for First Nations to transports furs