1. COLONIZATION OF NEW FRANCE
CUE CARD QUESTIONS
COLONIZATION OF NEW FRANCE
Cue Card 1. Identify France’s 3 objectives in colonizing New France
Cue Card 2. What is mercantilism? What are the three steps involved?
Cue Card 3. What is the difference between a trading post and settlement colony?
Cue Card 4. How was France’s policy of mercantilism applied to the fur trade?
Cue Card 5. What strategy did King Henry IV employ to create a settlement colony?

2. Cue Card 6. What is a monopoly? What is a missionary?
Cue Card 7. When was the first permanent settlement created? What was it called? Who created it? Where was it located?
Cue Card 8. What were the advantage of the location of Quebec?
Cue Card 9. The French expanded their alliance in Who were the original native allies and who was the new addition to this partnership? Who became their enemies?
Cue Card 10. When was the first battle between the French and the Iroquois?

3. Cue Card 1. Identify France’s 3 objectives in colonizing New France
To exploit fur
Populate New France
Evangelize the natives
Cue Card 2. What is mercantilism? What are the three steps involved?
Mercantilism is an economic theory designed to make the mother country rich through 3 steps:
1. Colony supplies the mother country with resources
2. Mother country manufactures resources into finished goods
3. Finished goods are sold to the colony and to Europe for profit

4. Cue Card 3. What is the difference between a trading post and settlement colony?
Trading Posts
Used to trade raw materials
Occupied on a temporary basis
Settlement Colonies
Territories used to exploit materials
Settled permanently

5. Cue Card 4. How was France’s policy of mercantilism applied to the fur trade?
Furs (resources) were sent to the mother country
Furs were made into fashionable hats and coats (manufactured goods)
Coats and hats were sold for profit
Cue Card 5. What strategy did King Henry IV employ to create a settlement colony?
The state granted chartered companies or merchants a monopoly over the fur trade in New France
In return, they promised to bring settlers to develop the colony.

6. Cue Card 6. What is a monopoly? What is a missionary?
Monopoly: when one company or person has exclusive control over a resource
Missionary: a person belonging to a religious order sent to a non-Christian territory with the goal of evangelizing the population.
Cue Card 7. When was the first permanent settlement created? What was it called? Who created it? Where was it located?
1608
L’Habitation
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec

7. Cue Card 8. What were the advantages of the location of Quebec?
1. Located near a narrow river which made it easy to monitor incoming and outgoing ships
2. First nations often travelled in this area
3. Close to the Saint-Charles river

8. Cue Card 9. The French expanded their alliance in 1616
Cue Card 9. The French expanded their alliance in Who were the original native allies and who was the new addition to this partnership? Who became their enemies?
Original members: French were allies with the Algonquin, Maliseet, Innu
New members: Huron-Wendat (new addition)
The Iroquois became their enemies
Cue Card 10. When was the first battle between the French and the Iroquois?
1609