First Nations and Early Exploration
A source created at the time an event happened, like a diary or letter.
What is a primary source?
The most valuable fur traded in North America during the colonial period.
What is beaver fur?
The peace agreement in 1763 that gave Britain control of New France.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The reason Americans rebelled: they paid taxes but couldn't do this.
What is vote on laws?
The type of government system that splits power between national and provincial governments.
What is a federal system?
Name two of the three First Nations groups that lived in what is now Canada before European contact.
What are the Mi'kmaq, Haudenosaunee, and/or Anishinaabe?
The French settled here along the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic coast.
What is New France?
The agreement that protected First Nations land west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
The language and religion of Upper Canada.
What are English and Protestant?
The four provinces that joined Canada in 1867.
What are Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain in 1492, reaching the Caribbean instead of Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This vast fur-trading territory was controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company in northern North America.
What is Rupert's Land?
The law that let French Canadians keep their religion and their own laws
What is the Quebec Act?
What people wanted but British governors wouldn't give them in Upper and Lower Canada.
What is a say in government or democracy?
The law that created Canada as a new country in 1867
What is the British North America Act?
This explorer mapped the St. Lawrence River and gave "Canada" its name; he was French.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
A new group of people emerged from the fur trade: children of European traders and First Nations women who became intermediaries and traders.
Who are the Métis?
The region where Britain and France fought, and many French people were forced to leave.
What is Acadia?
The report that said Canada should have democracy and joined the two Canadas together.
What is the Durham Report?
The railway that connected all the provinces and was promised to British Columbia.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Factors that motivated Europeans to explore new lands, such as poverty or religious conflict, are called these.
What are push factors?
The type of settlement focussed on farming in North America during colonial times.
What are the Thirteen Colonies?
The region where French Canadians lived and rebelled because they wanted more power in government.
What is Lower Canada?
The type of government Canada got after the rebellions, where leaders had to listen to elected people.
What is responsible government?
The six big topics people argued about when creating Canada as a country.
What are:
- federal vs. provincial powers
-representation in Parliament
-trade and tariffs
-railway construction
- debt distribution
- protection of minority rights