1. WHICH STATEMENT DESCRIBES THE SEIGNEURIAL
SYSTEM IN NEW
FRANCE?
A) It was intended to help the chartered companies carry on the fur
trade.
B) It was intended to help develop trade between the seigneurs and
the Natives.
C) It was intended to help establish powerful seigneurs who controlled
the colonists.
D) It was intended to help the settlement of colonists by determining
in advance the rights
and duties of the seigneurs and
the censitaires.
2. WHICH SET CORRECTLY DESCRIBES THE ECONOMIC, GEOGRAPHIC AND
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE SEIGNEURIAL
SYSTEM IN NEW FRANCE ?
Under the seigneurial system,
1. the farms were rectangular
in shape and perpendicular to the river;
2. the people put their
efforts into developing agriculture;
3. the corvées
(free labour) promoted the exchange of services.
ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHIC
SOCIAL
A)
1
2
3
B)
2
1
3
C)
3
1
2
D)
3
2
1
3. CHOOSE A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SEIGNEURIAL SYSTEM
FROM
EACH OF THE FOLOWING THREE CATEGORIES.
PURPOSE
1. To promote the fur trade.
2. To promote settlement.
LAND DIVISION
3. Long, narrow strips of land perpendicular to the river.
4. Square plots of land, some of which were reserved for the clergy.
DUTY
5. Farmers who lived on and farmed the land had to pay an annual
rent, the cens et rentes.
6. Farmers who farmed the land had to give part of their harvest
to the governor.
A) 1, 3, 5
B) 1, 4, 6
C) 2, 3, 5
D) 2, 4, 6
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