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What is the definition for colony?
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A region claimed and governed by another country.
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What is the definition for Mercantilism?
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A regulated econonic system to make another country rich. A colony would send furs to Europe for very little money, then the European country would sell the furs for 10 times its worth.
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What is the definition for monopoly?
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Is the complete control over resource. The europeans wanted to monopolize the fur trade. So French and British people were competing with each other.
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What is the definition for a Charter?
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Is a set of rules and privilages granted to a company by a king or queen.
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What is the definition for primary resource?
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Is an origional peice of information such as a document or image.
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What is the definition of coexistance?
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When two or more peoples of diverse or different cultures live peacefully. First Nations learned to live coexistiancely before the europeans came to Canada.
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What is the definition of immunity?
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The ability to fight off and infection. First Nations peoples had no immunity to the dieseases and almost half of their population died out.
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What is the definition of epidemic?
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Is the infection of a diesease that effects a large population.
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What is the definition of dowry?
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Is the money a women brings to a marriage.
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What is the definition of fille de roi?
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It means Daughter of the KIng. These women were brought to New France from the streets or orphanages and had no family. They were given a dowry from the king and was sent off to the new world.
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What is the definition to seigneury?
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Is large plots of land owned by a landlord. It was mainly noble men or women from a noble family who were the landlords of the land.
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What is the definition to habitant?
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People who inhabited the land. In france they would be known as peasents. They work for landlords or seigneurys.
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What is the definition to coureur de bois?
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These were people who worked independantly in the fur trade. They traded with First nations because this made more money than farming.
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What is the definition to voyageur?
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It means traveler. Voyageurs were men from new france who traveled between fur merchants in montreal and the fur trade forts.
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What is the definition to corvee?
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These were habitants who did the farmwork. They had to give a few days of hard core labour to the seigneury once a year.
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What is the defintion of Competition?
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When two or more people or groups compete with eachother.
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What is the definition of Economic Competition?
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It means winning or getting control over morewealth than the other. The British and French were very competitive.
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What is the definition of middlemen?
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Is a person or group working between two other groups or points. A middleman connects these two persons together. The Ouendat were the middlemen between the Anishinabe and the French.
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What is the definition of Francophone?
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Is a person whose first launguage is French.
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What is the definition of pemmican?
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Pemmican is a food that is from dried wheat mixed with berries, meat, and fat.
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What is a Metis?
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A child of a French Father and a First nation mother, or vice versa.
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What is a Francophone Metis?
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A Metis person whose first launguage is french.
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What is the definition for a Scottish Metis?
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A scottish father or a first nations mother, or vice versa.
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What is the definition for a Factor?
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A factor is a person incharge of a fort.
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What is the definition for a Canadien?
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A canadien is a desendant of a settler from New France.
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What is the definition for an Indian?
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This is a word that was used to describe a First Nations person. First Nations perfer not to use this term.
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What is the definition for Aborigional peoples?
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First Nations, Metis, Inuit are considered Aborigional People
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