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| When was the 30 years war? |
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| Which area remained outside of the 30 years war? |
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| Why is it important that the UK or England stay out of the 30 years' war? |
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| Because it sets England up in a situation of stability so they could become challengers of France in Canada |
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| What were the effects of the 30 years' war for Europe? Who was involved? |
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| The events were catastrophically devastating in deaths, disease, famine, relocation, and it was upsetting for Gov. Nearly every country in Europe was involved. |
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| What are some key charactertistics of the 30 years' war? |
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- It is the last religious war
- The experience of this war is the reason why France cannot focus on New France during this time period and the settlers in New France can do whatever they want in the 17th century
- People begin to recognize thomas hobbes teaching: Leviathan |
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| Who is Thomas Hobbes and what did he do? |
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| He published the Leviathan |
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| When was the Leviathan published? |
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| There is a picture in the book, who is the Leviathan, and how does it relate to the 30 years' war?? |
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| The guy over top of the town, what France needs to bring Europe back to a place of stability and wealth. The real person who becomes the Leviathan in Louis XIV. |
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| What did Louis XIV do, who is he? |
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| He built versailles and other beautful places, he wanted to awe people with his wealth and power. He comes to the Throan when he is very young (1643-1715) and takes him til 1661 to get people on his agenda because then he decided he is going to take contro of the affairs in New France and have a direct approach. He claimed to rule by divine right but would say he is not divine; so the surpreme authority rests on him and no one else...however he still needs ministers to help him. |
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| Who is Jean-Baptiste Colbert? |
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| He was the controller of general finances for King Louis XIV beginning in 1662. He had a vision of what colonial empire could look like, and he advised the king to create a navy to support the cross Atlantic Empire and was then made the minister of colonial and maritime affairs. |
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| Why was Jean-Baptiste Colberts move in creating a Navy, and Louis XIV becoming king important to New France? |
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| New France was now going to be a government enterprise and not everyone was going to be able to go voluntarily. The goal is now to make money and people of New France were not going to have as much freedom. |
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| When does France, or Louis XIV, take control of New France? |
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| Who were the Daughters of the King (Filles du Roi) |
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| There was only 230 female immigrants between 1643 to 1663, so the sent about 800 women (Fille du roi) to New France in 1663 that were suppposed to be strong enough to perform manual labor and have plenty of children, and specialized in skills that would benefit the colony. Most of the women were poor and from urban centers. Many of the women came for Parish General Hospital (unmarried pregnant women) and the ages were around 12 to 25, some older because they were unable to marry in France. |
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| Was the Daughters of the King successful? How successful? |
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| It was considered successful by the French Gov. About 90% of the women stayed there and a very high proportion got married and had Children. |
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| How do we know the king and the governor general were so serious about these women being married? |
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| No one could hunt or fish if they did not marry one of the women, if there was one in their district and she was available. |
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| Who were the key components of the Administration of New France? |
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Governor General
Intendant
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| Where did the governor general reside? |
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| Who was the most historical notable governor general? |
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| What were the must have characteristics of the Governor General? |
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A French Aristocrat
Born in France
Trained in France
A Miliatary Man |
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| The Governor General would be in charge of....? |
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| The miliarty forces in new France, everyone would report to him. |
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| What was the Intendant responsible for? |
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Finances
Administration of Justice
Economic Development
Civil Administration
Hands on Implementer of French Policies |
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| Who was the first intendant of New France? |
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| Jean Talon, lived from 1626 to 1694 |
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| When did Jean Talon become the first intenant of New France? |
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| What did the Intendant have to be a part of? |
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| The New Aristocracy that Louis XIV was creating |
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| What did Jean Talon do as first Intendant? |
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- Established Three Model Farming Villages for French Settlers
- Assigned large areas of land to sieners
Forbids french men from entering the Fur Trade and even be like the First Nations
- Brings livestock over from France
- Encourages the people to set up brewers, bakeries, and small manufacturing
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| Upperclass men given large area of land |
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| What did New France model? |
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| The French Provincial Parliaments called the Sovereign Council. |
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| When whas the Sovereign Councils name changed and what was it changed to? |
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| Superior Council and 1703 |
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| What is absolutism and how does it correlate to the government structure of New France? |
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| A very high level of authority, and this was how Louis XIV liked the structure of the Government and how it replicated the gov. structures of France in New France. |
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| What shows us that there was likely more freedom in New France? |
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| In 1757 women rioted because the gov. had stopped distributing bread and change the meat to Horse Meat. |
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| What is Mercantilism, what is its role with New France and France? |
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| This refers to the economic relationship the France wanted to have with New France. Since France saw an opporunity for Wealth, so the colonies harvested the resources, they were brought to France and made into markable goods, then shipped back to the colonies and sold for profit. |
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| How did Louis XIV effect the Church in New France? |
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Prior to 1663 Catholicism was mainly Jesuit priests who working primarily among the First Nations and the women who came across were a part of the Monastic and would administer sacraments.
Now the women orders will lose freedom.
The missionary model will become the Diasee model - clergy
The goal is that the church structure is better in New France than France.
They want it to not be tainted by the French Enlightenment
New France is thsu ultra orthodox (obedient church) |
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| What was the biggest challenges of the church after 1663? |
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| Having enough parish priests |
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| How many Parish Priests were there before 1763?? |
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| By 1763 how many Parish Priests were there? |
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| About 73 and some would say that was still not enough because its about one preiest to one thousand people. |
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| Why does the church have difficulty imposting its authority during this time? (1663 -1763) |
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| Because of the Fur Trade, however the Church is very important in the cities and towns. |
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| Who is Francois De Laval (1659), what does he do, and when? |
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| The bishop. He is in charge of the catholic church and becomes bishop in 1674. He causes women, nuns, and other religious womens authority and spear of work diminish. They could no longer work outside of the cloister. |
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| When did the revocation of the Edict of Nantes happen? |
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| What does Gallicanism refer to? |
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| The trajectory, beginning with Louis XIV, and his desire to be head of all religious affairs. He acts as if he wants to assurp the pope, becomes the pracitical head of the church, appoints bishops and clerics (which is the popes job) and French Catholicism is characterized by being controlled by the French Gov. |
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| What did Lous XIV do in relation to Jansenism and Gallicanism? |
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| Because he was pursueing Gallicanism, he persecuted protestants and people that joined the jansenism movement; both in New France and Old France. |
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| When did the great witchhunts take place and where? |
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| Prevalents in the 17th century in Europe but also part of New France in the 17th century. |
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| What happened in 1661 in regards to the witch hunts? |
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| A protestant was found guilty for being a warlock for causing whooping cough in a women. |
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| What is the seigneurial system? |
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| The land was intended to look like it did in Europe; so intended to model the feudal system. So the seigneurs would have a part of land that was outright his and the other part belonged to the peasants. The habitants owed an annual fee in order to work the land to the siegneur and had to take care of the masters land, and had to give a certain amount of days in manual labor. |
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| What was the intent of the Seigneurial System? |
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| To be the image of old France and to keep the French colonists as peasant; to put in a stratified social system |
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| What is the Edict of Marly? |
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| This edict is about the settlement of land. This act said that all undeveloped land would be taken from seigneurs. It shows us how serious the the French Gov. was about colonial settlement in New France. |
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| Why did the Seigneurs wait do develop there land (but because of the edict of marly they couldn't do this or they would lose the land) |
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| Because the land would be worth more if they left it. |
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| When was the edict of marly put out? |
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