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A death ship.
What is a coffin ship?
100
Led by Joseph Papineau in Lower Canada.
What is Parti Patriotes?
100
Declared by the government in Lower Canada when the Patriotes threatened to attack the government after riotes erupted.
What is martial law?
100
Two colonies were created and received their own elected assemblies.
What is the Consitutional Act of 1791?
100
Men and women travelled secretly through a network of secret trails and pathways.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Exclusive ownership because of legal privilege.
What is Monopoly?
200
Led by William Lyon Mackenzie in Upper Canada.
What is Reformers?
200
Colonist demand for this, in both Upper and Lower Canada, eventually led to Rebellion.
What is responsible government?
200
Both the ideas of assimilation and elected assembly were dropped.
What is the Quebec Act?
200
Representatives are elected by voters to make laws on their behalf.
What is Responsible government?
300
An economy that uses cash -- replacing a system of trade and bartering.
What is money economy?
300
An oligarchy, also known as the Tories, that wanted to make the Church of England the most powerful in the colony.
What is Family Compact?
300
William Lyon Mackenzie took advantage of Upper Canadian troops pulled away to quell riotes in Lower Canada to begin this.
What is Rebellion in Upper Canada?
300
Recommendations to the British Government for bringing peace to the Upper and Lower Canada.
What is Lord Durham's report?
300
The Seigneurial system, absentee landowners and speculators, crown and clergy reserves, and the concept of supply and demand are examples of this.
What are barriers to obtaining land in Upper Canada?
400
Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it.
What is nationalism?
400
An oligarchy of British merchants who encouraged active involvement of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Chateau Clique?
400
Although immediately unsuccessful, Upper and Lower Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 resulted in this.
What is governmental change?
400
The Act of Union resulted in this new state.
What is the United Provinces of Canada?
400
Appointed by the British Government, this person appoints his own advising councils.
What is the governor?
500
Americans who did not support the American Revolution.
What are Loyalists?
500
The British Government instructed this individual to keep Responsible government OUT of Canada.
Who is Lord Sydenham?
500
This appointment was one outcome of the failed rebellions.
Who is Lord Durham?
500
The French-Canadians were again threatened with this recommendation.
What is assimilation?
500
In 1848, members of the Legislative Assembly were elected to here.
What is the Executive Council?