Unit+One+Test+-+First+Peoples+and+New+France+before+1763

=__ Welcome to the Unit Test review page __.= = You can add your own answers, read your classmates responses, discuss your opinions, and together come to a better understanding of your course work so far. Enjoy! = = Tentative Test Date - March 10, 2011 = = For your test you will need to know: = 1 . What is history?

2.Why do we study history?

3. The difference between a primary source and a secondary source, and be able to classify sources as primary, secondary, or both.

4. Explain what 2 history quotes mean to you. If you have a favourite history quote you would like added to the list add it here: It can be included in the test. 5. List and explain 6 reasons why Europeans first came to North America. 6. List and explain 6 interactions between First Nations and the first Europeans to come to North America. 7. Explain why 3 of the following individuals or groups came to New France, and what interactions they had with First Nations.
 * History is herstory, too. - Author Unknown
 * Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. - W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
 * Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Author Unknown
 * More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
 * Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians. - Franklin P. Jones
 * History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. - Author Unknown
 * History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley
 * History is a novel for which the people is the author. - Alfred de Vigny, Reflexions sur la Verite dans l'Art
 * Filles du Roi
 * Engages (indentures servants)
 * Jean Talon
 * Samuel de Champlain
 * Marguerite Bourgeoys
 * Jean de Brebouf
 * Marie de l'Incarnation
 * Soldiers of the Cariganan-Salieres Regiment
 * Etienne Brule

Short Answer Questions: 8.W hy did the fur trade became so important? How did fur trading work? What kinds of items were used for trade goods? What was the unit of currency at a Hudson Bay fur trading post? What was the price of a gun? A blanket?

9. What events led up to the formation of the Hudson Bay Company? Where did the Hudson Bay Co position their trading posts? Why?

10. What was the role of a voyageur?

11. Why were women so important in the fur trade?

12. Long Answer Questions - be able to write a more detailed paragraph about one of the following: 13. Synthesizing what you've learned in this unit.
 * Life at a Hudson Bay fort - location, origin of furs, interactions with First Nations, transportation methods, trading process, transportation to Europe, uses for furs.
 * Role of women in the Fur Trade - trading relationships, importance to survival, country marriages, consequences and long term historical effects of country marriages.
 * The Life of a Voyageur - Where voyageurs came from, what they did, food, clothing, dangers and hardships.
 * Describe the experiences of 3-4 explorers from this period, include their interactions with First Nations.
 * Explain the origins of the Hudson Bay Company, the amount of land they controlled, where they built their original forts and why, their conflict with the Northwest Company, and the eventual merger of the two companies.
 * How would you describe the interactions and relationships between First Nations and Europeans during this period?