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Native Peoples
Acadians
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Loyalists
100
Daily changes in the level of the ocean.
What are tides?
100
Wigwams were made from these materials.
What are spruce poles and birchbark.
100
The name of the French settlers in the St. Lawrence River area.
Who are the Acadians?
100
An ocean wave produced by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
100
The country the loyalists were loyal to.
What is Britain?
200
Mi’kmaq word for dwelling.
What is Wigwam
200
Natives traded furs for this type of object.
What are metal objects?
200
A disease that killed many colonists.
What is scurvy?
200
In 1992, the Canadian government stopped this.
What is the Cod fishery?
200
Th place where loyalists came from.
What are the Thirteen Colonies (United States)?
300
Someone who studies the way people once lived by looking at their homes, tools, and clothing.
What is an archaeologist.
300
The main native groups in the Atlantic region.
Who are the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Beothuk?
300
The event that forced Acadians to leave their homes.
What is le Grand Dérangement?
300
Raising fish in protected areas until they are big enough to harvest for human consumption.
What is aquaculture?
300
The thing promised to loyalists who came to Canada.
What is free land.
400
Settlements that are under the control of another country, such as Britain or France.
What is a colony?
400
They died after Europeans arrived in Newfoundland. Many died from diseases that came with the Europeans.
Who are the Beothuk?
400
Acadians were supposed to swear an oath of allegiance to this country.
What is Britain?
400
These allowed for the region's resources to be transported around the world.
What are railways and harbours (trains and ships)?
400
Much of the land given to them was rocky and bad for farming.
Who are the Black Loyalists?
500
An agreement between countries. It is also an agreement between the government and First Nations people.
What is a treaty.
500
The animal hunted by the Beothuk in the winter.
What are caribou?
500
The group that helped many early colonists survive their first winter.
Who are the Mi’kmaq?
500
These provinces make up the Atlantic Region.
What are Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., and Newfoundland and Labrador?
500
The term for the British colonies in North America after the United States became independent from Britain.
What is British North America?