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Seigneurial System - a social system based on nobles (seigneurs) who rented

land to farmers (habitants). The habitants had to give seigneurs a portion of

their annual crop and pay other fees, and the seigneurs had to build a mill and

a church on their land for the farmers.

Chapter 3 — The British in North America

Mercantilism - an economic system that allowed an imperial country to become

rich by selling the resources taken from its colonies.

(Example: Britain made money by selling the natural resources taken from the 13

colonies)

Sovereignty - supreme governing authority. Britain wanted to show its

sovereignty by tightening its control over the French colonies in North America.

Chapter 4 — Competition for Trade

The First Nations, Merchants, and Fur Traders were the three major groups who

took part in the fur trade.

The fur trade was a partnership between European traders and First Nations

hunters and trappers. First Nations wanted goods from Europe, and the

Europeans valued the fur pelts from the First Nations.

Voyageurs - a Canadian or Metis employee of the North West Company who

paddled back and forth from Montreal to the trading forts in the West.

Ethnocentric - a viewpoint that judges other global cultures and ideas

according to personal values and standards; believing that ones own cultural

group is superior.

Barter - the exchange of goods for other goods rather than money.

Imperialism - a country extending its control over other countries, often using

economic or military means.

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