New France Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. fur and skin of an animal used to make household items and clothing
  2. 7. "daughters of the king" were single and/or orphaned women in New France to marry and start families to help populate the new colony
  3. 8. a settlement established in a new country by people from a different country
  4. 9. to change religions, like the clergy tried to get the First Nations people to convert to Christianity
  5. 11. someone who goes to another country to help people share their religion
Down
  1. 1. the owner of the land plots in New France; they were often wealthy men of nobility back in New France
  2. 3. when a country makes new settlements in a new land, and controls those areas
  3. 4. when a country tried to get as much wealth (gold, silver) as it can
  4. 5. "runners of the woods" men who made their careers as fur traders in the forests of New France
  5. 6. when a person or group is granted the right to be the only one buying and selling
  6. 10. poor farmers who rented the farm land from the seigneurs