HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sovereign Council Of New France, Triangular Trade, Mercantilism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 101
• Professor: John- Henry Harter

Document Summary

The age of absolutism: louis xiv was an absolute monarch, all power was embodied in the king, the divine right theory justified absolutism, jean-baptiste colbert, minister of colonial and maritime affairs. Absolutism in new france: royal government in new france, 1663, military security, carignan-sali res regiment, 20 years of relative peace with first nations. Seigneurialism (a landholding system in france and new france) Key terms: seigneur: required to maintain, develop a household on the estate, censitaires: peasant farmers. Objectives: to perpetuate a traditional class structure, to establish a framework for relations between landowners and peasants, to develop a system for recruiting and settling immigrants. 1663 1673 nearly 800 filles du roi. Average birth rate of 8 or 9 per woman. Governor general: chief colonial officer, responsible for, military forces, relations with first nations, usually a military man, a member of the old aristocracy. Intendant: chief provincial administrator, responsible for, finance, economic development, justice, civil administration, usually new aristocracy.