Vocabulary
The collective, international, term for the original peoples of North America and their descendants.
What is Indigenous?
The way of living where First Nations people hunted and gathered their food and followed the migratory patterns of animals.
What is Nomadic?
The most valuable export from New France was the fur of this animal.
What is beaver?
United States declared war on Britain and had numerous battles on the Great Lakes, at sea, and in the American South.
What is the war of 1812?
These tenant farmers from Ireland and Scotland were pushed off their land due to the enclosure movement and Thomas Douglas helped them settle in the Red River Valley in present day Manitoba.
Who are the Selkirk Settlers?
The community of French Canadians living in Quebec, particularly before and during British colonization of North America.
Who are Canadiens?
This animal frequently appears in several Indigenous creation stories.
What is a turtle?
This type of labour was commonly used in the Southern Plantations.
What is slavery?
British colonists who migrated to British North America after American War of Independence.
Who are the Loyalists?
Constitutional Act of 1791 created this political system in Upper and Lower Canada where small elite held political power.
What is an Oligarchy?
This act in 1774 guaranteed French language rights and allowed Roman Catholics to take some roles in the colony’s governance.
What is the The Québec Act?
The tradition used to teach, record history, and offer entertainment to First Peoples
What is Oral Tradition?
This explorer was the first to sail the St.Lawrence River.
Who is Jacque Cartier?
Acadians had an alliance with this First Nations group.
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
These reformers wanted responsible government in Upper and Lower Canada which was government responsible to electorate (kept accountable by voters).
Who are William Lyon Mackenzie and Louis-Joseph Papineau?
This Indigenous group was called Bois-Brûlés by the French, “mixed breeds” by the English. They had mixed European and Indigenous ancestry and lived in the Red River Region, Buffalo hunting and traded pemmican.
Who are the Metis?
This theory suggests that people used a land bridge exposed by lower ocean levels to migrate from Asia to North America, and then through the Americas
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
This early explorer of North America was a viking.
Who is Leif Erikson?
General James Wolfe famously died during this battle.
What is the Plains of Abraham?
George Brow, John A Macdonald, and George Etienne Cartier formed this group in 1864 and changed the future of Canada.
What is the great Coalition?
This British fur trading company held many land stakes in British North America and until recently had been the oldest company still running in Canada. It has recently gone bankrupt.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
This first peoples major grouping lived in Southern Mantitoba and is known as the Plains Group.
Who are Ojibwe?
An economic theory that a country can accumulated wealth by importing raw materials from and exporting manufactured goods to colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
General Amherst ordered British forces to “gift” First Nations leaders at Fort Pitt with two blankets and a handkerchief infected with this virus.
What is smallpox?
This conference was held in 1866 where the constitution of Canada was presented to the British government for approval. The constitution was approved and a new nation called the "Dominion of Canada" was created.
What is The London Conference?