Vocabulary
This term describes the joining of several colonies to form one country.
What is Confederation?
This Métis leader organized his people to protect their land and rights as Canada expanded westward.
Who is Louis Riel?
This is the year Canada officially became a country.
What is 1867?
These two forms of transportation helped people and goods travel more quickly across British North America.
What are steamships and railways?
These were the two things the Métis wanted to protect when they organized under Louis Riel.
What are their land and rights?
This term describes an Indigenous people with a distinct culture, history, and identity.
Who are the Métis?
This 1870 agreement officially created the province of Manitoba and addressed Métis land rights.
What is the Manitoba Act?
This was the name given to Canada when it first became a country.
What is the Dominion of Canada?
This happened to cities and populations as industrial growth and settlement increased.
What is the growth of cities and populations?
This was one reason Indigenous communities were displaced as Canada expanded westward.
What is settlers expanding onto Indigenous lands to access land and resources?
This term describes a temporary government established to organize and govern a region.
What is a provisional government?
This treaty was signed in 1877 between the Canadian government and First Nations in the southern Prairies.
What is Treaty 7?
This event happened in 1869 when Louis Riel and the Métis organized to protect their land and rights.
What is the establishment of a provisional government?
These were two reasons British North America needed improved transportation systems.
To support growing populations and businesses.
These two traditional activities were disrupted for many Indigenous communities as settlement expanded.
What are hunting and fishing?
This is a tax placed on goods imported from other countries, making foreign products more expensive.
What is a tariff?
This 1885 battle was a major conflict between the Métis and Canadian government forces.
What is the Battle of Batoche?
This province officially joined Canada through the Manitoba Act in 1870.
What is Manitoba?
These were two ways industrial growth benefited British North America.
Increased trade, more jobs, more factories, growing cities, or new business opportunities.
This was one way settlement and industrial growth negatively affected Indigenous peoples.
What is the displacement of Indigenous communities from their traditional lands?
This term describes the buying and selling of goods between countries with fewer trade restrictions and taxes.
What is free trade?
This American law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers, even if they had escaped to free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Put these four events in chronological order: the Manitoba Act, Confederation, the Battle of Batoche, and the establishment of the provisional government.
Confederation (1867), provisional government (1869), Manitoba Act (1870), Battle of Batoche (1885).
This was one negative effect of industrial growth on children who worked in factories.
Dangerous and unsafe working conditions.
Explain how the growth of cities, factories, businesses, and transportation systems contributed to the displacement of Indigenous peoples.
Industrial growth increased the demand for land and natural resources. As settlers expanded westward to build communities, businesses, and transportation systems, they moved onto Indigenous territories, displacing communities and disrupting traditional ways of life.