The Society of New France

Throughout history males have been perceived as the dominant sex. This notion had been strong in Europe and most of the Western World. The colony of New France, however, was able to break this way of thinking and began to regard their women as an equal. Women’s roles in New France could be described as small but very important as day to day life would not be as efficient without the help of the women of New France. Both European women and Aboriginal women had jobs that were essential to everyday life, women helped contribute to the fur trade, Catholic nuns had major roles in education and health, and the women of New France went against the norm of the modern European woman.

New France, is a term that was used to refer to the area that the French colonized in the North America. Jacques Cartier, Samuel Champlain and other early explorers opened up new routes along St. Lawrence River to allow further exploration works into the North America territories. Champlain explored other places down to the Lake Champlain building up settling areas.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, New Spain and New France came to the New world for two different reasons. New France came to the new world in search of a new west passage and Spain came in search of gold and religious freedom. They both wanted to spread their religious beliefs through missionaries. The Spanish were the first to establish large settlements. The Spanish had over 200 cities by 1570. The French didn’t start colonizing until 1604. The first French colony was Acadia and Quebec which came years later in 1608. The Spanish had a huge head start on colonization over New France but they both thrived in their own ways by using Natural Resources and slaves.

The French Revolution was a time of period where social and political was a disruption in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. This time of period affected Social Structure of France prior to the French Revolution. The factors that caused this revolution was due to having a bad government system, weak superiority, and inequality of the classes of people in France during the war. In this research, I will define and explain how Social Structure contributed to the French Revolution Resentment of royal authoritarianism. The three estates that social structure consists of are first estate which are the clergies, second estate known as the Nobleman, and third estate which are the Bourgeoisie, peasants, and workers. The Revolution did not omit sharp distinctions among the social groups, neither did it alter the distribution of wealth. This caused them to divide into these three groups called as estates.

The New World offered ownership of land and thrill of adventure. During the 16th century, a great deal of exploring was spent on searching for the fabled ‘El Dorado,' which is defined as a place of vast riches or abundance. Like the Spanish power, France was impelled by a desire to spread Christianity, to find wealth, and to counter the efforts of other nations. France also hoped to find a new water route to the East through the North American Continent. French explorers sailed down the St. Lawrence, across the waterways of Canada, through the Great Lakes, and finally to the Mississippi River and its vast drainage system. They did not find the Northwestern Passageway but found endless forests filled with fur-bearing animals and Indians eager to trade instead. Using the animals as a resource, the French became prominent in the New World mainly with fur trade. Unlike explorers such as Soto and colonizers at Roanoke, the traders realized the importance of dealing with the Indians and was consequently more successful. And from the fur trade, trading posts were established. The friars brought Christianity to the Indians. The French missionaries had a less lasting influence on the native population than the Spanish. They did not find any major missions but instead had many temporary mission stations, where priests read masses and performed sacraments. Motives for

After discovering America by Christopher Columbus, European started to fight over land. France and England were fighting over land in North America, and the reason for establishing the New France, at first was for fur trade.

Cartier’s thorough explorations of the St. Lawrence Gulf created the main gateway for Europeans to access North America (Ages of Exploration - Jacques Cartier).

One of the many things the settlers of New France bought with them from France into North America was religion. Historians have argued that the church played huge part in the lives of the people in New France. Despite being far away from the leaders of the church and thus not directly under their control, the church still played a role in the lives of the people of New France. By the 1600s Jesuit missionaries had entered New France and started their attempts to convert the First Nations people. As more settlers moved into New France it was more difficult for the church to keep its status. They attempted with various methods to convert more First Nations and keep the European settlers in the church. However, post 1663, after the creation of the Royal Colony, the issues regarding religion and the issues it was causing did not decrease.

The British, French and Spanish were the main empires that colonised throughout the continent of North America during the 17th century. The European nations wanted to gain further power by acquiring more land overseas. They were also in search for new trade routes that led directly to Asia or Africa because this would give them unlimited access to gold and other goods. Another reason for exploration was to spread Christianity and Catholicism wherever they went which would weaken the Middle Eastern Muslims. This would also be the time of the Columbian Exchange which was the transfer of goods, animals, crops and diseases through the Americas, Europe and Africa.

Yes. New France was doomed to fail. The issues in New France from 1608 to 1663 divide up into three categories; Economic issues, Territorial Issues and Political Issues. Economic issues are mainly based on the fur trade, Territorial Issues are mainly based on the trading posts, colonies and the land wars between the English and Political Issues are mainly established on the lack of people in New France compared to the English. French presence in North America was marked by economic exchanges with Aboriginal people, but also by conflicts, as the French attempted to control this vast territory.

Respond to the question: How do you think the male-female breakdown of the population would have affected life in New France at that time?

Before 1760, a Canadian society was developing a replica of the western world by building on the ideas of agriculture and commerce. The agriculture settlement in New France was organized by the use of the seigneurial system. The seigneurial system in Europe created a complete framework for hierarchy and the economic relationship between landlords and tenants. But in Canada, it wasn’t all that successful as the system was mainly used for organizing settlement and to work for the lands. In the past, early Canada was characterized as a rural, agriculture society. This prevented the recognition of small industries under the French regime. But nonetheless, most members of the colony engaged in some sort of entrepreneurship. The Conquest was indeed

Many European empires began serious colonization efforts of North America in the1500’s. The main colonizers of North America were the French, Spanish and British. The British colonization efforts were concentrated along the east coast of America, while the French began their colonization in Canada. Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer, traveled down the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico in the mid 1500s. France claimed ownership of “everything from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies” (Davis). France now had two major colonies consisting of Canada, and Louisiana as well as control of overland trade routes connecting the two colonies.

There were many early expeditions from Europe to North America, most in search of a

The European conquest for establishing North American colonies began with various motivations, each dependent on different, and/or merging necessities: economics, the desire to flee negative societal aspects, and the search for religious freedoms. Originally discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 in search for a trade route to Cathay (China), North America remained uninhabited, excluding the Native American establishments. Following this discovery, Spain –along with other European nations such as France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands– soon began the expedition to the new land with vast expectations. Driven by economic, societal, and religious purposes, the New World developed into a diversely structured colonial establishment