People of British North America
Diversity in British North America
Political Features in British North America
Economic Factors Affecting British North America
Hodge Podge!!
100
The number of British North American colonies.
What is 7?
100
About 30,000 of these American's escaped to Canada West and Nova Scotia.
Who were slaves?
100
A symbolic term referring to the monarch of a country.
What is the crown?
100
Trading within each British North American colony.
What is intercolonial trade?
100
The railway that linked Toronto and Montreal.
What was the Grand Trunk Railway?
200
Leaving one's country to settle elsewhere.
What is emigrate?
200
The secret network that helped runaway slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
A situation where progress can not be made because the political parties involved do not agree.
What is political deadlock?
200
Taxes on imported goods.
What are duties or tariffs?
200
Leader of the Canada West Conservative Party.
Who was John A. MacDonald?
300
The population of British North America was predominantly this origin.
What is British?
300
A mass movement of British and American people attracted to British Columbia in search of wealth.
What is the gold rush?
300
The number of elected representatives is determined by the size of the population in the region represented.
What is representation by population?
300
Trade without duties or tariffs.
What is Free Trade?
300
A famous woman, born as a slave in Maryland, who escaped to Canada West where she became involved in the Underground Railway.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
400
An official count of the population ~ The first of it's kind took place in British North America in 1851.
What is a census?
400
A mass migration of people from Ireland due to the loss of this staple food.
What are potatoes?
400
A political party preferring what is safe and familiar rather than wanting change and risk.
Who are conservatives?
400
British Laws that governed the export and import of grains.
What are the Corn Laws?
400
Jack Madgett plays for this rep hockey team?
Who are The Burlington Eagles?
500
A colony where the people were mainly French speaking and Roman Catholic
What was Canada East?
500
These people often lived on the fringes of settler society.
Who were the First Nations?
500
Part of the government that decides what bills will be introduced into the legislature.
What is the executive council?
500
Allowing free trade on natural products between British North American colonies and the United States.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
500
One of the largest British Banks who were unwilling to lend money for the completion of the Intercolonial Railway unless they united as one country.
What was the Baring Brothers.
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