SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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They made the land more special.
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They gave jobs to the bosses
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They gave people a place to live. Before seigneurs, people would not stay in New France to live. They would just come to do business with the fur trade.
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I don’t know!
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, the seigneurs’ most important obligation was the granting of land to settlers who requested it. They also had to build and maintain a wheat mill to meet the settlers’ needs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The seigneurial system was also a land distribution system aimed at populating the colony and regulating society. The territory to be developed was divided into seigneuries, which were granted to figures who had provided service to the king.
Detailed explanation-3: -The seigneurs were nobles, merchants or religious congregations, who had been granted a fief by the French crown, with all its associated rights over person and property. The seigneurie, or seigniory, (a large piece of land) was granted by the Governor and the Intendant.