New France Grade 7

give 3 or more reasons why European countries wanted to explore new land?

1. own more land to be more powerful

2.bew items to make things out of and to sell to make more money

3. to find new/better routes to aisa

who were the first people on the land now known as Canada?

The people who first lived on the land now known as Canada were indigenous people

What is scurvy?

scurvy is an illness caused by a lack of vitamin c

how can you cure scurvy?

scurvy can be cured by cedar tea because it has lots of vitamin c in it

who are the Jesuits

Jesuits are priests

what role does Jusuits play in Canada?

Jesuits travel across new France to spread the Catholic faith

what was the segneual system?

habitants would be granted land by a person called a segneur on extange for land habitants were expected to grow crops and pay taxes to the segneur

what were the conflicts between the European settlers and the indigenous peoples?

1. less animals

2. new diseases

3. guns promoting violence

4. mistreated indigenous peoples

5.afected beaver population

how did the European settlers and the indigenous peoples cooperate together?

1.new food sources

2.new meds

3.trading

4.new techniques for survival/hunting

Who were the Patriots?

Colonists who were against the British

Who were the Loyalists?

People who remained loyal to Britain

what did the Patriots want to accomplish

to gain their independence from Britain

what did the loyalists want to accomplish?

loyalists wanted to accomplish getting their land back

who is the father of new France?

Samuel de Champlain

what were the people called that were against slavery

the abolitionist were against slavery

what act divided Quebec into upper Canada and lower Canada?

the constitutional act of 1791