During the 1850s, the Assembly was deadlocked by rivalries between groups. One of the issues that divided the Assembly was...?
Rep By Pop
100
The Maritime colonies made a living from what?
The Sea
100
George Brown, leader of the Clear Grits, convinced his party to join what?
A coalition
100
A Governor General would represent the monarchy in Canada. Since 1935, he or she has been chosen by _______
Prime Minister
100
A method of resolving a disagreement whereby everyone gives up a little to get an agreement they can all live with is?
Compromise
200
What were three main factors that led these colonies to think about union?
1. Political deadlock in the Province of Canada
2. shifting trade relations
3. defending British North America
200
The years between ____and ____ were a “Golden Age” for the Maritime colonies.
1840 and 1870
200
Brown proposed what form of government?
Federalism
200
What is Canada’s Head of State?
British Monarch
200
An American belief that is the natural right of the United States to control all of North America?
Manifest destiny
300
The issue of conflict over “rep by pop” or representation by population was a concern to which part of Canada?
Canada East (French Candiens)
300
British North America had the fourth-largest shipping fleet in the world. What Countries had bigger fleets?
Britain, the United States, and Norway
300
What two parties agreed to Brown’s idea?
The Liberal-Conservatives and Les Bleus
300
At 11 o’clock in the morning, mayors and officials in towns and villages across the country read _______ to make Canada an official country
proclamation from Queen Victoria
300
What is Representative Democracy?
A form of government in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them; the representatives make laws that are in the best interest of people.
400
In 1861, civil war broke out in the United States. It was the northern states versus the southern states. The two main issues were what?
slavery and the power of the states to make their own laws.
400
Fish, lumber, and grain were major exports for the Maritimes. What industry was about to take over, Starting in Nova Scotia?
Coal mining was about to make Nova Scotia one of the largest coal producers in the world.
400
The issue of union led to compromise among the colonies. The basic outcome of this compromise was?
each colony gave up a little to achieve the agreement of all
400
What were the two parts that Parliament was divided into?
There was an elected House of Commons and an appointed Senate.
400
In Canada, a government (cabinet) that must answer to elected representatives is?
Responsible Government:
500
The British mercantile (Merchandise) system began to fail by the year 1846. Why?
Industry in Britain requiring more markets
500
Why did Newfoundland continue to have close ties with Britain?
They kept trade relations open by exporting fish to Britain
500
George Brown proposed that a central government would look after matters that affected the whole union.
This arrangement would reduce what concern in the Maritimes?
That central Canada would control their affairs
500
The passing of the British North America Act (BNA Act) in British Parliament established what?
The Dominion of Canada
500
In Canada, the legal power over things that no one knew about in 1867 is?
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A system of government in which a central government has power over matters affecting the whole country and provincial governments have power over local and regional matters is?