Social

• Primary resource


  Image or drawing of a scene created by witness
• Secondary resource


  Image or drawing created from a scene by imagination, story-telling, or from pre-exesting images
• Consensus


  An agreement made by a group of people
• Oral history


  Using stories to pass down information from generation to generation
• Silk Road


  This long overland route crosses through Asia and Eastern Europe. The route was dangerous because ambush parties would often attack the traders
• Trading Relationship between the FN and the Europeans was not good, Europeans are always quite mean and unfair toward the first nations
• Samuel de Champlain


  French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. From France
• Jacques Cartier


  First European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River
• FN were treated poorly by the Europeans
• Colony


  A territory of land that is controlled by another country
• Imperialism


  A colony did not have control of their political or economic affairs. Decisions about their future were usually made by the home country. This system of countries extending their control over other nations is called imperialism
• Beaver pelts were important to the French economy
• Monopoly


  When only one company or group is allowed to sell or trade a product in a certain area
• Voyageurs


  French-Canadian fur traders and explorers who played a key role in the North American fur trade industry during the 18th and early 19th centuries
• New France


  The area colonized by France in North America. It comprised five colonies and was rich in natural resources, playing a key role in the fur trade industry
• St Lawrence River


  Provided a crucial transportation route for early explorers and fur traders, facilitating trade and the growth of settlements in the region
• Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)


  Primarily operated in the Hudson Bay region
• North West Company (NWC)


  Focused on the interior of the continent, especially in the western part of present-day Canada
• The fur trade declined due to various factors, including changing fashion trends, overhunting of fur-bearing animals, the decline in demand for furs, the establishment of new trade routes
• Louisbourg


  French fortress located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was a military stronghold for the French in North America
• Royal Proclamation


  Organized Britain's new North American empire after the Seven Years' War, regulating settlement and land purchases and establishing boundaries
• Quebec Act


  Expanded Quebec's borders, allowed French civil law alongside British common law, and recognized the rights of the Catholic Church, thus changing the provisions of the Royal Proclamation
• Loyalists


  American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War
• Constitution Act


  Divided the province of Quebec into Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) and Lower Canada (present-day Quebec), establishing separate governments and legislative assemblies for each
• Upper Canada


  Had more English-speaking settlers and a diverse economy
• Lower Canada


  Had a larger French-speaking population and focused mainly on agriculture
• During The Great Migration, everyone wanted to come to North America because the population was growing rapidly in Britain but jobs were scarce, farmers were being forced off the land, poverty and hunger were common, Ireland suffered a terrible famine, ocean travel was now safer, and the colonies offered free land, new opportunities, and a chance for a better life
• Act Of Union


  Created the Province of Canada
• In 1867, the BNA Act happened
• Why were alliances important to the FN?

  Because they wanted protection from stronger groups
• What is the Thitreen Colonies and which comapny controlled it?


  Eventually, colonists from Britain established 13 separate colonies along the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Together the colonies became known as the 13 colonies. HBC