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A Metis flatbread.
What is bannock?
100
These people stayed in the Northwest and traded for the NWC.
Who are hivernants?
100
A two wheeled cart used on the prairie.
What is a Red River cart?
100
Someone who buys and sells land for profit.
Who are land speculators?
100
The year Manitoba entered Confederation.
What is 1870?
200
Ruling in a manner suggesting absolute power
What is autocratic?
200
The main fort of the HBC.
What is York Factory?
200
The animal that is most hunted by the Metis.
What is bison/buffalo?
200
A temporary government
What is a provisional government?
200
People who were British and Aboriginal decent.
What is country born?
300
Someone who fights for the rights of the underprivileged
What is a liberal democrat?
300
The territory given to the HBC.
What is Rupert's Land?
300
This person was one of the first Metis leaders.
Who is Cuthbert Grant?
300
The leader of the Red River Rebellion.
Who is Louis Riel?
300
The man who was appointed as the Governor of HBC in 1821.
Who was George Simpson?
400
Someone who acts as a dealer between two parties who want to exchange goods.
What is a middleman?
400
The reason intermarriage was encouraged by the NWC.
What is marriage strengthened ties with the Natives.
400
The reason the Metis were angry with the European settlers.
What is they thought they were entitled to their land.
400
The man who was executed by the firing squad.
Who is Thomas Scott?
400
The decree that pemmican was not to be exported from Red River.
What is the Pemmican Proclamation?
500
To carry goods from one body of water to another.
What is portage?
500
The reason the HBC and NWC merged.
What is they were running out of money?
500
This was one of the Metis conditions for Manitoba entering Confederation.
What is equality between French and English languages?
500
An Irish group who was anti-British.
What is the Orange Order?
500
This man was given a grant in Red River to bring over European settlers
Who was Lord Selkirk?