Grade 7 HISTORY

New France – The beginning

Vocabulary

• Exploration – Seeking new lands and new routes• Colonization – Settling and controlling new lands• Missionary – bringing one’s religious teachings

to others who do not share them• Monopoly – a right granted for one person or

group to control buying and selling• Mercantilism – economic theory that called for a

country to accumulate wealth in gold and silver.

Review – First People and European Explorers

• Numerous theories explain how and why they came to the Americas

• Beringia Theory – ocean levels dropped during the ice age and exposed a continent-sized bridge joining Siberia and North America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJaMyd8cNYQ

Native American Creation Theories

• Many Native People had their own versions of creation stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XoYZgvEH8

First Peoples were divided into six groups according to their traditional way of life

• Hunters (Northern Hunters and some Algonquian Peoples)

• Fishers (Northwest Coast Peoples)• Hunters and Farmers (Iroquoian and some

Algonquian Peoples)• Hunters and Gatherers (Plains People)• Gatherers (Plateau Peoples)• Hunters and fishers (Arctic Peoples)

16th Century

• European fishing fleets made annual visits to the Eastern shores of Canada.

• Unorganized dealing with fur trading was done on the side.

• In the late 16th C beaver hats grew very fashionable and the marquis de la Roche was granted a royal monopoly which gave him exclusive rights to trade in furs.

• La Roche established a small community on Sable Island

Sable Island, also known as the ‘graveyard of the Atlantic”.

What can you infer about why this mission may have been a failure?

Pierre du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain

• In 1604 the fur monopoly was granted to du Guast who settled a colony near the mouth of the St. Croix River.

Champlain• Lieutenant and geographer who promptly

carried out exploration of the north-eastern coastline (what is now the United States).

• By Spring the settlement was moved to Port Royal on the shore of the Annapolis Basin.

Port Royal

This settlement was described as the Habitation and was France’s most successful colony.

Why was colonization necessary?

- To develop the region’s resources- To supply the European country with

inexpensive raw materials and products

- To provide a market for Europe’s manufactured products

QUESTIONS...

• Why do you think it would be important which country reached newly discovered areas first?

• What part does a country’s flag play in exploration and colonization? (symbolism)

• Why do you think setting up permanent settlements in new areas would be more beneficial than temporary settlement?