SOCIAL FLAHY CARDY- Narwhal Flashcards
(42 cards)
Who were the habitants? Huh?🤣
The habitants were farmers who worked on the seigneur’s land.
True or False: Seigneurs were soldiers or people who supported the King of France🤨
T-R-U-E!!!!!
Could a French settler marry a woman who was not baptized?🧐
NO!
Who is a METIS person?🤔🤔🤔🤔
A Metis person was someone with European and FN ancestory!
Did the Europeans’s tools make life easier for the FN?🙄
Y-E-S THEY DID!
TRUE OR FALSE: Many coureurs de bois started living with FN? 😄
TRUE!
What religion was popular in New France?🙍
Catholicism!
What were the 2 many goals of the Jesuit Priests?
- Spread the Catholic Religion to the FN people
2. To create a boys-only school
What was the strategy the Europeans used to help convert the FN?
They tried to kill the leaders in war.
True or False: FN believed in many gods?
TRUE!
How many people were in New France (roughly)?
3215
How much percent of people living in New France were men?
63%
Soldiers Jobs:
New France needed soldiers to defend their territory
Describe carpenters:
The land was undeveloped so they needed carpenters to build houses and buildings.
Describe Masons:
A mason is a builder who works with stone. Masons built strong buildings.
Describe Tailors:
A tailor makes hand-crafted clothing.
Describe Merchants:
Merchants were people who owned stores. They bought and sold items.
Bakers Job:
Bread represented 60-85% of the total food intake in New France, so bakers baked…….can u believe it? BREAD!
Describe Millers:
A miller someone who works in a grain mill which produces grain for bread.
Tell me the 1st 2nd and 3rd place in the social hierarchy!
TELLLLLLLL MEEEEEEE! 1st= King of New and just France 2nd= Viceroy 3rd= The minister of the Navy
The king hired who to represent him while he is gone?
THE VICEROY
The intendant was incharge of what 2 things?
Finance AND…………………………wait-for-it………………..JUSTICE
The intendant would send representatives to what 3 places?
Montreal, Quebec and the Trois-Rivieres
True or False: The members of the sovereign council had more power than average citizens?
T-R-U-E!