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New France Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Soldiers: The King wanted military men to settle in New France, so he offered seigneuries to officers. Soldiers in New France helped protect the colony from enemies and built forts to keep it safe. These soldier-seigneurs had to serve in the military and also make sure their land was worked by farmers, combining both military and farming duties.
        
        Farmers: The seigneurs collected rent from the habitants, either in the form of money, crops, or a share of the produce, in exchange for allowing them to farm the land. In addition to overseeing the land, seigneurs were responsible for maintaining roads, churches, and mills on their properties, and they played a role in settling disputes among the habitants. In New France, the seigneurs were landowners who received large plots of land from the French crown, which they divided into smaller parcels to lease to the habitants (farmers).
  - - - Farmers: They were poor. Had to build house for themselves. In France they were called paysans (peasant.) The habitants of New France were farmers who grew their own food, like wheat and corn, to feed their families. They lived on land owned by seigneurs and paid rent or gave part of their crops in return for using the land.