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Grade 7 SS Chapter 3
Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colony | A region (land) claimed and governed (ruled) by a country from a different part of the world. |
| Natural Resources | Something that is found in nature and can be used by people. These include light, air, water, plants, animals, soil, stone, minerals and fossil fuels. |
| Mercantilism | Get something cheap from one land and sell it to another country for more money. |
| Merchant | Someone who buys and sells things. |
| Merchandise | Another name for goods being sold. |
| Harvested | The bring in or to get it. |
| Monopoly | The complete control of a resource by a single company. Also called “Charter Companies”. |
| Charter | A set of rules and privileges granted to a company by a king or queen. Special rules that the king or queens says the company can do. |
| Ruler | The leader. King or Queen |
| Economic | Money |
| Permanent settlement | A place they would stay and live. Create their own community. |
| Languages and cultures of thirteen colonies | English, German, Sweden, and Holland. |
| Agriculture | Farming, growing crops. |
| Rupert’s land | Mostly French controlled by Hudson’s Bay Company. Fur trade was the main merchandise they had. |
| Hudson’s bay company | chartered company created 1670, was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada. |
| Catholic | Religion of New France. |
| Coexistence | Live together |
| Catholic church | Worship, Hospitals, orphanages, schools and skills training took place. Most important icon of New France Colony. |
| Fille De roy | Homeless and orphaned girls that were shipped to New France. |
| Dowry | Money a woman brings to her new husband to pay for a wedding and to his family. This was to populate (have babies) New France. |
| Habitant | People that lived there were farmers who worked on farms and lived on seigneuries (farms they did not own.) |
| Seigneurs | Landlords who rented out land to habitants. |
| Voyageur | Means “traveller” |
| Protestant | Religion of the Thirteen colonies. |
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