Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 12
Rivals and Allies
European conflicts and nations
What your child practises
How rivalry between France and England pulled Indigenous nations into conflicts, the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701, and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: A3.8 · effects of European conflicts on Indigenous peoples and on Acadia
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What did the English and French compete over in North America?
- Coins
- Land, trade and furs
- Rights to the Moon
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Land, trade and furs
Hint: Both countries wanted the wealth of the fur trade.
Question 2
What was the Great Peace of Montreal meant to do?
- Start a new war
- Create a fur company
- End fighting and set out ways to settle disputes
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End fighting and set out ways to settle disputes
Hint: It brought many nations and the French together.
Question 3
Why did Britain and France fight over Acadia?
- Both wanted the land, ports and trade
- Nobody lived there
- They both wanted to stop trading
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Both wanted the land, ports and trade
Hint: Acadia was in a useful place along the Atlantic coast.
Question 4
A conflict between nations can lead to…
- no changes at all
- more sunny weather
- changes in land, trade and relationships
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changes in land, trade and relationships
Hint: Conflict affects many parts of life.
Question 5
Which of these was a result of the Treaty of Utrecht?
- Canada became a country
- The fur trade ended
- France gave Acadia and other claims to Britain
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France gave Acadia and other claims to Britain
Hint: France lost some colonies in 1713.
Question 6
Some First Nations became allies of the French and others of the English. What effect could this have?
- Nations might find themselves on opposite sides of a European war
- All fighting ended
- Nations stopped trading
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Nations might find themselves on opposite sides of a European war
Hint: European conflicts pulled Indigenous nations into wars.