Grade 7 Ch 3 - The British in North America

True or False: Shanawdithit, the last Beothuk, died of tuberculosis.

• True

• False

True or False: The Northwest Passage was a sea route through Arctic waters, that Giovanni Caboto followed.

• False

• True

True or False: The idea of claiming and controlling new land and territories for one's homeland is called mercantilism.

• True

• False

True or False: With the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, all of Acadia except for the Fortress of Louisbourg became British land.

• True

• False

True or False: The British renamed Acadia Nova Scotia.

• True

• False

Choose the four reasons that Britain wanted to colonize North America?

• Economic

• Competition

• Quality of Life

• Religious Freedom

• Tourism

True or False: French fur trading companies sponsored Radisson and Groseillier's expedition to Hudson Bay.

• True

• False

True or False: The king of England granted the Hudson's Bay Company a fur trade monopoly covering all the lands that drained into Hudson Bay. This area was called Rupert's Land.

• True

• False

He was looking for a Pacific entrance to the Northwest Passage. He explored the coast of Vancouver Island, then sailed to China. There he found that the skins of the sea otter, which was so plentiful off the coast of British Columbia were worth a lot of money. Who was he?

• Anthony Henday

• James Cook

• Roald Amundsen

• George Vancouver

He went in search of a northern river on whose banks could be found copper and gold. He was the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean. Who was he?

• Henry Kelsey

• John Franklin

• Samuel Hearne

• Anthony Henday