BNA
July 1st 1867 was an important date known for?
What is the independence of Canada?
PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland are all what type of colonies?
What were the Atlantic colonies?
A agreement to allow free trade between BNA and the US
What was the reciprocity treaty?
They were wealthy landowners who rented out their land to Canadiens
What was a seigneur?
This was the date when confederation was achieved
When was July 1st 1867
This conference was held outside of Canada
What is the London conference?
This was the only Colony opposed to confederation during the first conference.
What is Newfoundland?
This was an American belief in a clear right and duty to expand all throughout North America.
what is manifest destiny
A person who is descended from a French man and a first nations woman
What is a Metis?
Who was John A. McDonald?
This law enforced by the US caused an influx of Black slaves migrating to BNA
What was Fugitive slave act
what industry's would you find in the Atlantic colonies?
fisheries, agriculture, coal mines and ship building
why did the Americans want to invade Canada?
to expand there land
He was a important French politician who was involved in the lower Canada rebellions
Who is Louis-Joseph Papineau
During the gold rush on the western coast, a small war broke out between the First Nations and the gold miners. This war was dubbed the ________.
What is the Fraser Canyon War?
These two politicians had the same name
Who were John Hamilton Greys?
These three first Nations tribes lost a majority of their land to the Atlantic colonies
What were the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and the Mi’kmaq?
What is Alaska?
During the Quebec conference, Canada East asked for special rights regarding three things
What is religion, education, and language?
The nationalities of the people who came to the west coast for the gold rush were ______, _______, ___, and ______.
What were China, Europe, Eastern Canada and America?
Had this bill been put into place by the US much of southern Canada would've been under their control
What was the annexation bill?
He was a successful business man known for his ship building, and when that failed, he switched to mining.
Who was Joseph Salter?
The Americans ended the reciprocity treaty following the?
American civil war
This was something that the government attempted to do to the French population
What is assimilation?
The colonies who had signed the legislation will end their statues as individual British colonies and be joined together as a partially ____-_______ country by an act of British parliament.
What is self governing?