CHAPTER 1
These nomadic hunters followed seasonal migration patterns and lived in wigwams.
Who are the Algonquians?
This trading company was granted monopoly rights over the fur trade in New France in the early 1600s.
What is the Company of One Hundred Associates
This war between France and Britain decided control of North America in the 18th century
What is the Seven Years’ War?
This document recommended the unification of Upper and Lower Canada
What is the Durham Report?
This document, written by Louis-Joseph Papineau, demanded political reforms including an elected legislative assembly in Lower Canada.
What are the 92 Resolutions?
This language family includes the Huron-Wendat and the Iroquois.
What is the Iroquoian language family?
This system divided land into long strips along the St. Lawrence River
What is the seigneurial system
This act, passed in 1774, allowed French Canadians to keep their language, religion, and civil law.
What is the Quebec Act?
The British government responded to the rebellions by suspending this.
What is the constitution / the legislative assembly?
This secret society supported the Patriotes and planned the rebellion in Lower Canada.
What is the Société des Fils de la Liberté (Sons of Liberty)?
These members of the community were respected for their wisdom and helped make decisions.
Who are the elders?
This term refers to the process of converting Indigenous peoples to Christianity
What is evangelization?
The Quebec Act allowed this religious institution to collect tithes.
The Catholic Church
This crisis in the 1840s caused many Irish immigrants to arrive in Canada.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
These two colonies were united after the rebellions.
What are Upper Canada and Lower Canada?
This term describes the way European goods and beliefs started changing Indigenous lifestyles
What is acculturation / cultural change?
This council advised the governor and helped govern New France
What is the Sovereign Council?
British merchants often lived in this city, which became the economic center.
What is Montreal?
This industry was a major source of employment but was often dangerous and poorly paid.
What is logging or lumber?
The British government signed this proclamation to recognize Indigenous land rights west of Quebec.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
He made three voyages to the St. Lawrence River starting in 1534
Who is Jacques Cartier?
These men travelled the rivers to trade furs with Indigenous peoples.
Who are the coureurs des bois?
After the American Revolution, many of these refugees settled in Quebec.
Who are the Loyalists
This term describes the movement to protect French Canadian language and culture.
What is nationalism?
This 1791 act divided Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
What is the Constitutional Act?