Canada's Many Names
Indigenous Peoples
Food History
Name That War
Reign of Terror
On the Map
Contraptions
Quotations
Miscellaneous
100

What name do many Indigenous peoples use for North America?

Turtle Island

100

These people were believed to have become extinct. They shunned contact with Europeans.

Beothuk

100

Name a recipe ingredient associated with the Acadians.

Molasses

100

The Third Estate wanted more political power.

French Revolution

100

Who was Maximilien Robespierre? 

Leader of the French Revolution

100

What was this region long called?

Rupert's Land

100

James Watt invented this device and it was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution.

Steam engine

100

Who said the following words: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."


Abraham Lincoln

100

Montgomery's Tavern in Toronto (then called York) was the site of this conflict.

Upper Canada Rebellion

200

The name used for the nation formed by Confederation in 1867.

Dominion of Canada

200

These people were promised land as part of the Manitoba Act, but the "scrip" system failed and they were cheated out of most of it.

Metis

200

Marie Antoinette is famous for allegedly saying, "Let them eat ______."

cake

200

The Americans fought against the British for the first time since winning their independence.

War of 1812

200

Parisians stormed this prison, which they saw as a symbol of tyranny. 

Bastille

200

What does the red line here show?

Northwest Passage

200

This invention changed the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution

Spinning Jenny

200

About whom was this poem written (excerpt below): 

And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!

Paul Revere

200

Louis Riel was convicted of ____________

Treason
300

The Act of Union in 1841 created this province.

Province of Canada

300

Indigenous tribe whose territory covered much of the East Coast (NOT only Newfoundland)

Mi'kmaq

300

This cake was named after which European ruler?

Napoleon 

300

George Washington led a surprise attack by crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night.

American Revolution

300

A human-centered, atheist “religion” created and promoted during the French Revolution

Cult of Reason

300

Which explorer was set adrift in this body of water after his crew mutinied? 

Henry Hudson

300

Name this device

Guillotine


300

What battle inspired the following words:

Say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming?

Battle of Baltimore, War of 1812

300

In the American Civil War, the North was known as the __________ and the South was known as the __________. (Be sure to answer in correct order)

Union, Confederacy

400

The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided Quebec into these two colonies.

Upper Canada and Lower Canada

400

What tribe did this chief lead?

Cree (this is Crowfoot)

400

What is this food called? It was common among the indigenous, made of bison meat and berries.

Pemmican

400

General Robert Lee surrendered to General Ulysses Grant.

American Civil War

400

Representatives of the Third Estate refused to leave this place until they had drafted a new constitution.

The king's tennis court

400

What river is this?

St. Lawrence River

400

Name this structure, a traditional stone landmark used by Inuit and other Arctic peoples.

Inukshuk

400

Who said these words in the late 1800s? "We must make Canada respect us."

Louis Riel

400

A war over who should take power after a king or emperor dies is known as a war of ____________

Succession

500

With the Treaty of Paris 1763, ending the Seven Years' War, ___________ became a British colony.

New France

500

Indigenous people from which country made this map?

Australia

500

Who led the failed expedition, whose members were long thought to have been poisoned by tin cans (later debunked)?

Sir John Franklin

500

This war is known as the first "World War," though it happened long before World War I.

Seven Years' War

500

This law allowed revolutionaries to arrest many people believed to be against the revolution with little evidence.

Law of Suspects

500

What is the name of the canal that made this route between Europe and India possible?

Suez Canal

500

What people invented the aboiteaux, which prevented salt water from flooding coastal plains.

Acadians

500

My name's Tom; the little chil'en used to call me Uncle Tom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

This 1713 treaty gave Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Acadia to Britain.

Treaty of Utrecht

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