Zusammenfassung der Ressource
character of New France Society - Decapitation vs. Changing Masters
- decapitation
- French connection was necessary and beneficial to start
- France provided money and provided an export for goods
- arrets de Marly
- society of New France was not a carbon copy
- Filles de Roi chose whether and to whom to marry creating social movement
- decreased punishments and enforcements due to frontier conditions
- decreased taxes and tithes
- boys didn't often join the clergy
- illegal trading, circumventing decrees, and initiation of industry
- social distinctions blunted
- access to fish and wild life for peasants
- seigneurs had no official military role
- seigneurs mad money through military, trade and government
- role of church limited
- bourgeoisie arose
- Intendents were members of the new aristocracy and had a lot of power
- poorer non-noble seigneurs
- Assemblies and chambers of commerce could act as pressure groups for government
- society entrepreneurial
- indigenous class reinvested in colony
- materialism arose
- not priest ridden or particularly religious
- church was the handmaiden of the government - didn't dominate
- Limited parishes due to lack of money and clergy
- coureurs de bois not agrarian
- role of church limited
- after conquest
- bourgeoisie left
- chopped off connection with France and economic leadership
- upset by British merchants dominating, not bourgeois views
- became inward looking
- church took over leadership
- mystified rural way of life
- Devil = city and fur trade
- Changing masters
- French connection was colonial only
- ensured necessities for stable communities were provided ex/ hospitals
- any imperial power could step in and do the job
- feudal society
- stuck in societal level
- entrepreneurship did not exist
- no idigenous bourgeoisie
- focus on expansion and economic gain and initiative of France to limit rivals
- economic development directed by French interests
- no interest in colony improvement
- little industry developed
- church dominated
- law to be part of Catholic Church
- Church presided over every stage of life
- churches values and prejudices permeated law
- fines for blasphamy, ban on non-religious books
- society was rural and religious
- after conquest
- little impact on economy
- would have left with the money anyways
- another imperial power stepped in
- resented bourgeois not Anglo-AMericans
- church continued to dominate
- feudal values continued to prevail