New France: Vocabulary

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  1. 3. Members of the Roman Catholic religious organization sent to spread their religious beliefs
  2. 6. Warfare A warfare technique using surprise attacks and ambushes instead of planned, civilized battles
  3. 8. A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army, primarily concerned with the reward/pay instead of the country
  4. 9. Someone who is granted a piece of land (landowner) from the crown, with the associated rights over person and property
  5. 11. A rebellion against people of power/authorities E.g sailors refusing to obey their captain
  6. 13. Translates into “the daughters of the king”- young women sponsored by the King of France to leave France and marry pioneers in New France
  7. 16. A person who operates a business/businesses, often taking a large financial risk
  8. 17. Members of a French religious group under the Roman Catholic Church
  9. 18. Survival of the unique culture of French Canada, especially in Quebec
  10. 20. A small administrative district that typically has their own church with a priest/pastor
  11. 21. et Ventes Taxes paid by habitants in New France
  12. 23. Trading system in which a colony provides low-cost raw materials to manufacturers that is sold for profit
  13. 26. A settlement that usually houses sailors, pioneers, belongings, animals, and food- also used as a fort
  14. 27. Tax paid by a habitant to the seigneur
  15. 28. Another name for a habitant who rented land in New France
  16. 29. Government Rule by a Queen or King
  17. 31. Work habitant performed on a seigneur’s land
  18. 32. A farmer in New France
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  1. 1. The holder of a public administrative office- important government official in New France: responsible for running the colony and for controlling the fur trade, industry, justice etc.
  2. 2. Somebody who suffers persecution and/or death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, and/or refusing to advocate a belief or cause of either a religious beliefs
  3. 4. A person hired to work of 3 years, after which they owned a plot of land to farm
  4. 5. The attempt to undermine New France by removing the leaders of the society
  5. 7. To absorb and integrate people/culture into a larger society or culture
  6. 8. A person who works to convert others and change their religious beliefs
  7. 10. A boatman employed by the fur companies in transporting goods and passengers to and from trading posts in North America
  8. 12. A fur trader of New France, unlicensed entrepreneur
  9. 14. A community priest in New France
  10. 15. The exclusive control/possession of the supply or trade in a commodity E.g right to trade in furs
  11. 19. An official surrender between two armies/opponent
  12. 22. An organization of various groups that allows them to help and support each other
  13. 23. The marriage of an Aboriginal female and a French fur trader
  14. 24. System The method of landowning and land distribution in New France
  15. 25. Competition E.g Imperial rivalry in North America
  16. 30. 1/10 of a New France habitant’s earnings, gifted to the church