Canadian History

Question 0

Originating where it was found

Answer 0

Indigenous

Question 1

The writing/recording of history

Answer 1

Historiography

Question 2

Although the Vikings(since 100 AD) landed at Newfoundland, Permanent European settlement began when?

Answer 2

In the 15th century (1400s)

Question 3

The first European settlers were motivated by what?

Answer 3

GOLD- through looking for gold and other riches, they found a wealth of fish and fur in eastern North America and sugar in the Caribbean(gold was a metaphor)
GLORY- literally and/or figuratively these explorers stuck their flags in the ground to claim land for the mother country and extend their empires. They received fame from home
GOD- the PROTESTANT REFORMATION(esp. Martin Luther+Henry Vll) in Europe led to a split in the Catholic Church(Protestants and Catholics) the pope sent missionaries(from Spain, France and Portugal) to convert the First Nations to the Carolina faith, fearing a loss of people of the Protestant denomination.

Question 4

In Canada(New France) Jesuits were missionaries sent from Europe to convert the First Nations to catholic faith, they were also called what?

Answer 4

Black robes

Question 5

Applying modern values and beliefs to the past

Answer 5

Presentism

Question 6

Savages means what is French

Answer 6

Wild

Question 7

What are primary documents?

Answer 7

Includes letters, pictures, newspapers, articles, diaries, contracts- Anything- that are created during the time they are describing. They haven’t been interpreted

Question 8

What are secondary sources or documents?

Answer 8

Includes textbook, documentary videos, magazine articles, or any other medium that describes the event after the fact

Question 9

What is the word for “assuming your culture is superior to another”

Answer 9

Ethnocentric

Question 10

What is colonialism

Answer 10

The policy of one nation ruling over another nation or territory; the act of subjecting the people the people of one nation or territory to the authority of another power

Question 11

What happened in 1492 to begin the European contact in the Americas?

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search for a trading passage to Asia and crashed into the Americas on his way

Question 12

Why is the name Indians probably not the best term for native people

Answer 12

When Columbus arrived in America he thought he was in India and named the natives Indians

Question 13

What is mercantilism

Answer 13

An economic system whereby the nations of Europe would acquire colonies (like in North and South America) for their natural resources. All of the products and the profit would be sent back to the mother country. The negative part of this was the trans-Atlantic slave trade that brought millions of enslaved people from West Africa.

Question 14

Newfoundlands trade product was what?

Answer 14

Furs, wood and fish

Question 15

What was the Europeans Atlantic trading root called?

Answer 15

Middle passage

Question 16

In 1497 who arrived in one of three places while looking for a trade root to China. He claimed this land for England although he was Italian sailor. And what did he find?

Answer 16

John Cabot, he found vid fish off the Grand Banks

Question 17

Jacques Cartier(French sailor) sailed along the Atlantic coast down the St Lawrence river, what did he find?

Answer 17

He found furs(beaver felts) that helped supply Europeans demands for these type of hats

Question 18

The French didn’t settle permanently in New France(which came Quebec) until when? And where?

Answer 18

Until Samuel de Champlain set up his trading post at Quebec City in 1608. He had settled briefly at port royal in Nova Scotia in 1605

Question 19

When the French first came to Nova Scotia it was know as what?

Answer 19

Acadia

Question 20

Who arrived as a translator to Port Royal? And was the first what to set foot in what is now Canada?

Answer 20

Mathieu DaCosta, the first person of African descent

Question 21

Who did the French allied themselves with and why?

Answer 21

the Webdat(Hurons) and Algonquins, because of their knowledge of the fur trading areas, survival skills, medical support and because they were outnumbered

Question 22

Mount the following in correct order in who arrived in America first

• DaCost
• Columbus
• Cabot
• Cartier
• Champlain

Answer 22

-Columbus
-Cabot
Cartier
-Champlain/ also DaCosta

Question 23

The French alliance with Algonquins and Hurons made them enemies with the Dutch and later the English who became allies with who?

Answer 23

Dutch and English became allied with the Iroquios(also known as the Hausenosaunees)

Question 24

New York was first named what are the Dutch arrived?

Answer 24

New Netherlands

Question 25

What was necessary for the native allies to receive guns

Answer 25

Conversion to Catholicism

Question 26

What are the six geographic regions of the native groups of Canada?

Answer 26

Eastern Woodlands(maritimes,St Lawrence river, Ottawa River Valley), low lands(Great Lakes/southern St. Lawrence Valley), plains(prairies), northern sub-arctic(Canadian Shield), Pacific ocean and Arctic

Question 27

Name the 6 groups of Native people

Answer 27

• mi’kmaq, Algonquin, Montagnais, maliseet (moved around on birch bark canoes which they invented)
• Iroquois(Haudenosaunee), Huron(Wendat) (log houses,first farmers of Canada)
• Sioux, Blackfoot (nomadic)
• Haida, Ni’sgaa, Salish(permanent)
• Inuktitut(language), Inuit groups