Conflict in 13 Colonies
Wave of Refugees
Challenges of Loyalist Migration
War of 1812
Vocabulary
100
They thought the Canadiens would welcome them as liberators.They were wrong
Why did American soldiers attack Québec in 1775?
100
A person who seeks protection in another country to escape danger in their own country
Who is a refugee?
100
The First Nations group MOST affected by the Loyalist Migration.
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
100
These events in Europe triggered a conflict in North America.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
100
Movement of people from one region of a territory to another.
What is migration?
200
They thought Britain had no authority to tax colonists, because Britain didn’t allow them to elect representatives to the British parliament.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
200
Loyalists, Black Loyalists, Haudenosaunee people, and German Mennonites.
Which groups of people moved to Québec and Nova Scotia during the Loyalist migration?
200
These groups were worried that the arrival of the Loyalists would endanger their language, culture and way of life.
Who are the Canadiens and First Nations?
200
When war began, this person helped organize First Nations to support the British against the Americans?
Who is Chief Tecumseh?
200
The process of people establishing homes and citizenship in a country that is not their native country.
What is immigration?
300
People who supported the rebellion in the 13 Colonies.
Who are Patriots?
300
This was offered to Black Loyalists.
What is "Freedom and Farm"?
300

This group petitioned Britain for their own colony, separate from Nova Scotia. This lead to the creation of which colony?

What is New Brunswick.

300
After the War of 1812, Britian and the United States agreed to settle the boundary between British North America and the U.S. peacefully using these.
What are treaties?
300
The process of becoming part of a different cultural group (not your own)
What is assimilation?
400
He led a rebellion and became the first president of the United States in 1789.
Who is George Washington?
400
This group began to ask Britain for British laws and customs in Québec, because “they were British born subjects and have always lived under the government and laws of England.”
Who are the Loyalists?
400
The American attacks centered on Upper Canada, where some of the Loyalists had settled after the American war of independence.
What are reason why the people of Upper Canada not support the Americans?
400
A rapid, often violent change in a system of government (from monarchy to republic, for example)
What is a revolution?
500

- Made colonies pay for the troops. - Raised taxes in the colonies - Expanded Quebec into Indian Territory

What are the "Intolerable Acts"? (What did Britain to upset the 13 Colonies?)

500
• Divided Québec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada. • Established British civil and criminal law in Upper Canada. • Set aside lands for Protestant churches and guaranteed the Canadiens rights to the Catholic Church. • Established a “representative government.”
What is Constitutional Act of 1791?
500
Britain shut down trade between France and the U.S. It blocked American ships from landing at French ports. The British navy also began boarding American ships, looking for British deserters.
What are reasons why the Americans declared war on British North America in 1812?
500
A person who researches family trees
What is a genealogist?
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