___________ were Christians who came to convert people (change religion). Religion was an important motivation for Europeans to establish colonies.

_______ is an economic policy where a nation gets rich by selling resources taken from its colonies.

The _____ ______ was the main economic activity of colonies in Canada. It created competition between the French and British. At first, it also created many partnership with the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada.

A _______ is land that is controlled by another country/nation. When a country has many of these, it becomes an empire.

The _________ lived in the wooded country of northern and central Ontario and southern Manitoba, eventually moving onto the Plains as well. They were organized into clans named after animals, each having a different responsibility.

The six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora) formed this alliance

Samuel de Champlain and Pierre de Monts established Port Royal in the Bay of Fundy, calling the area ________. They also traveled up the St. Lawrence and established a settlement calling it _______.

Pierre Radisson and Sier des Groselliers were two examples of _______ __ _____. These "runners of the woods" helped establish the fur trade and extend territory further west and south.

________ _______ was the territory that covered all land drained by the rivers that flowed into the Hudson Bay. The Hudson's Bay Company had a monopoly of the area from 1670-1870, granted by Britain.

The _________ were legal traders of the fur trade. They were hired and worked closely with the Mohawk and Anishinabe. They were the first Europeans to settle on the prairies.

Was New France mostly Catholic or Protestant?

A system of countries extending their control over other nations is called _______