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Title: France and Britain Establish Colonies in North America
Source: Our Canada, Origins, Peoples, Perspectives
I can statement:
Author: Rees, Anderson Gerrits, Allaire
Pages 71-72
Read page 71’s section What’s a Colony? Identify the five purposes of colony and summarize the
section.
Key Concepts
Colony: a region claimed and ruled by country from another part of the world.
Mercantilism: a regulated economic system that made a country rich from its colonies.
5 Purposes of a Colony
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Supply European countries with raw
resources.
European manufactured goods would
be sold back to the colonies
A colony was a way a foreign country
could dominate a region.
Under mercantilism, colonies made
European countries rich
Summary: Narrative or Figurative
European countries set up colonies in order to
establish control of a foreign region. With the
economic policy of mercantilism, European
imperialism saw colonies used a cheap source of
raw materials and as a market for expensive
manufactured goods.
Read page 72’s section What’s a Monopoly? Identify and define key terms and complete a summary.
Key Terms
Summary: Narrative or Figurative
Monopoly: the complete control of a
resource by a single company.
European monarch’s granted monopolies to
companies allowing them total control of a
region’s resources if they established colonies.
This power of a monopoly, given to a company,
was written down in a charter that stated the
company’s rights and responsibilities.
Charter: a set of rules and privileges
granted to a company by a king or queen.
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Read page 72’s section, How Did French and British Imperialism Differ? Complete the Venn diagram
below.
French Imperialism
British Imperialism
Differences
Differences
Similarities
British colonists
wanted land for
farms.
British saw First
Nations as
obstacles
British tried to
push First
Nations aside.
Differences
Both thought of
themselves
superior to First
Nations.
French wanted
resources such as
furs.
French saw First
Nations as partners.
French took steps to
convert First
Nations to
Catholicism.
Relate
In what way did First Nations belong to the society established by France? In what way did they not
belong?
Economically, they were viewed as partners but socially the French felt themselves superior to First
Nations; even going so far as to take steps to convert them to Catholicism.
In your opinion, which style of imperialism might have had the biggest impacts on First Nations, the
French or the British? Why?
British imperialism had a greater effect on First Nations than French imperialism. In the case of
imperialism, both the British and French created their policies based on ethnocentrism. On the one
hand, French imperialism changed First Nations’ economic and social structure. That is, First Nations
stopped taking only what they needed from their environment to taking more as they became partners
in the French fur trade. Moreover, the French began to convert First Nations to becoming Catholics
(Catholicism) forever changing their social structure. On the other hand, seeing First Nations as
obstacles, British imperialism wanted land to farm. This need for land resulted in First Nations being
pushed off their traditional and spiritual lands. So, under British imperialism, First Nations also face
economic and Given that today, many First Nation societies have signed treaties, it would appear that
British imperialism had the greatest lasting impact on First Nations’ lifestyle.
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British imperialism had a greater effect on First Nations than French imperialism. Both French
and British imperialism, based on ethnocentrism, changed First Nations’ economic and social structure.
As a result of French imperialism, First Nations’ economic structure went from being based on taking
only what was needed from their environment, to taking more than they needed as they became
partners in the French fur trade. Moreover, French imperialism changed First Nations social structure, as
it sought to convert them to Catholicism (becoming Catholic).
First Nations stopped taking only what they needed from their environment to taking more as
they became partners in the French fur trade.