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Period: Nov 28, 1500 to
Culture and Currents of Thought
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Period: Nov 28, 1500 to
First Occupants
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Nov 28, 1550
Animism
Spirituality/religion that Amerindians abided by.
Idea that everything in narture has a soul and must be treated with respect, including praying after hunting and using every single part of the animal to not waste. -
Mercantilism
Economic system implemented in the early days of the French Colony.
Fur businesses were given monopoly on the fur trade to make as much money for the king. They also had the goal of developping the colony but doing so would cause competition and lose them money.
Ended in 1663 when the royal government was implemented to develop the colony more with the help of a governor and intendant. -
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The French Regime
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The Royal Government
Implemented by Louis the 14th to help the developpement of New-France.
Trying to fix the mercantile system that gave the king a little more money but halted the developpement of the colony.
Hierarchie: King-Minister of Marine-Governor-Intendant-Bishop.
First intendant Jean Talon came in and began implementing his population growing policies. -
Beginning of Canadien Nationalism
Nationalists where people who lived in the Quebec area celebrate their culture that is different from Europe, calling themselves: Les Canadiens.
The people of New France felt such little connection to Europe that at this time they couldn't at all identify with what was going on in Europe. -
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British Regime
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Ultramontanism vs Anticlericalism
Ultramontanism: The idea that the church and the pope shoudl have more power over political things like education.
Anticlericalism: The idea that the church should have less influence on government, the separation of church and state.
In this time, everyone was on board with the church, but in the end, there would be seperation of church and state like we have today. -
Imperialism
Began a little while after the American Revolution.
The idea that people from a country should identify with the culture from the country that conquered it, like how Britain conquered New-France.
Ex: Loyalists who didn't want to stay in America and instead moved back into British territory to stay loyal to Britain. -
The American Revolution
When the 13 colonies decided to fight to seperate from Britain. They acquired their freedom and became an independant comapny.
Drew a line between Nationalists, those who were loyal to the place they were born in, and Imperialists, those loyal to the mother country, in this case, Britain. -
Liberalism
The idea that people and businesses should be more free to decide what they should do without government interference.
Began in the British regime, where liberal ideas began to spread through print and word of mouth. -
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The Contemporary Period
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Economic systems in the Contemporary Period
Capotalism: Economic system that allows people with the money to do things to do whatever they like without government interference.
Socialism: The governement pays a little attention to what the people do to try and keep people happy.
Co-operatism: When a group of peopel pool their money and their profits to share them to make sure they all get money.
Canada uses a socialist-capitalist hybrid system today. -
Secularism
The idea that the church should stay involved as much as possible in people's lives and in government.
Began when the church started losing steam with people.
Finally, the separation of church and state marked the end of this movement -
World War 1
War began in 1914 and ended in 1918.
When all the men left for war, the women did many jobs and began voting.
This was the start of feminism, when women wanted the rights men had after experiencing them for the first time. -
The quiet revolution
In the 1960's, when Quebec was starting to modernize and do many things other modern countries had, like seperate church and state.
Many new ideas emerged during this time, like neo-liberalism, and new types of nationalism. -
Quebec Nationalism
Began during the quiet revolution.
Basically, the pride in Quebec as a nation, and keeping with Quebec culture.
Some parts of this nationalism include forcing French to be the 1st language of Quebec and refusing government money for builidng roads, for example, saying that we don't need it. -
Neoliberalism
The idea that more freedom for the people and for businesses, like in liberalism, must be obtained by having the government be hands-off.
Usually businesses were in favor of this because it allowed them to be less regulated and earn more money. -
Seperation of Church and State
Occured during the quiet revolution.
The idea of keeping the church and the bishops out of government policies.
Marked the rapid decline of pro-church ideals, like secularism, ultramontanism and others.
