Jean Talon Jean Talon was in charge of populating New France after 1663 He was also in charge of making sure New France was able to make money Jean Talon was in charge of the economy What does Economy Mean ID: 419106
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New France & EconomySlide2
Jean Talon
Jean Talon was in charge of
populating
New France after 1663.He was also in charge of making sure New France was able to make moneyJean Talon was in charge of the economy.Slide3
What does ‘Economy’ Mean?
The word economy means what a country or colony does to make money
There are lots of things that can be done to make money
New France tried several things to make moneyNew France had fisheries, industry, seigneuries and
trade
with other French colonies. Slide4
Fisheries
Fisheries
: places where boats gather to catch
fish and bring them back to land to be preserved and soldNew France had lots of fisheriesFish was important because Catholics could not eat meat
on Fridays
So they ate
fish
Only fish on Fridays =
lot of fishing
=
$$$Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10
Industry
What is industry?
Industry is
when raw materials and goods are gathered and/ or made by people to be sold to make money.Jean Talon started tanneries, forestry,
s
hip building,
hemp
and flax production for clothing and a
brewerySlide11
Industry
Tanneries
: places where people turn animal skin
into leather to make different goodsForestry: Cutting down trees so that the trees can be used to build
different things
Ship building
: Jean Talon started a ship building industry in
Quebec
City
.
Men made large ships from lumber found in New France
Breweries
: Places where you make
beer
to sell
Jean Talon started the first large brewery in New FranceSlide12Slide13Slide14Slide15
Seigneuries
Jean Talon and the king of France decided that starting
seigneuries
would be a good idea.Farmers could produce crops that made moneyTwo of the most popular crops: Flax and hemp
Flax
make linen and clothes
Hemp
ropeSlide16Slide17Slide18Slide19Slide20Slide21
Trading with other French colonies
France had colonies all over the
world
New France was just one of the colonies.There were French colonies in the Caribbean, Africa
, South America, Asia and the South Pacific Oceans
Jean Talon thought it would be a good idea to
trade
with some of the other French coloniesSlide22Slide23
Triangular trade
Jean Talon helped set up
trading
with French colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.This was called a triangular trading systemSlide24
Triangular Trade
New France and the Caribbean would send
raw materials
like sugar, maple syrup, tobacco, cotton, hemp, flax, lumber to France.France would sell manufactured goods back to the coloniesThe Caribbean and New France would trade raw material and some manufactured goods with each other
Men and women from Africa were sent to the Caribbean to work as slavesSlide25Slide26
Did New France become rich?
NO!
New France did not become rich because it did not trade enough or make enough goods to sell.
New France just made enough to surviveBecause most of New France was
farmland
, it could not produce as much as the English colonies
New France was also
less populated
No money + bad economy =
weak colony
England will eventually
take over
New France in the mid-1700s