Did French Canadians live in Lower or Upper Canada?
What is Lower Canada
100
This is Lord Durham's birth date
What is April 12th, 1792
100
The majority of Early Canada's first settlers came from this European nation.
What is Great Britain
100
How long did it take for people to travel to early Canada by ship?
What is upwards of one month
100
The biggest Rebellion in early Canada took place in what year?
What is 1837
200
When French Canadians married First Nations people, their children belonged to this cultural group.
What is the Metis
200
Lord Durham is praised as the founder of Canadian ___________ government.
What is DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
200
African Americans used this secret passage to gain access to freedom in early Canada.
What is The Underground Railway
200
Define the word "steerage".
What is the area below decks on a ship, used to store cargo.
200
Moderate reformers had their hopes dashed by Lord Russell's ______ ____________.
What is TEN RESOLUTIONS
300
This is the name of the political group that controlled Lower Canada, which was made up of wealthy British merchants.
What is the Chateau Clique.
300
Lord Durham was appointed as Canada's first .... what? after the Confederation Conference?
What is GOVERNOR GENERAL
300
This is the name of the French Canadian's equivalent to the Hudson's Bay Company.
What is the NORTH WEST COMPANY
300
Immigrants had to provide their own _________ while travelling to Canada by boat. If they did not bring enough, they would die.
What is FOOD.
300
Explain the difference between REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT and RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.
RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT: actually does what the people want and is able to function productively
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: you are able to vote for your representative and they vote for a large group of people.
400
This system of land ownership was used in New France (Lower Canada) until they ran out of farmland.
What is the Seigneurial System.
400
Lord Durham thought this was the true cause of early Canada's conflict.
What is the cultural conflict between the English and the French.
400
These were the three requirements the British government enforced when people received subsidized land settlements.
What is 1/20th had to be fenced, it had to have access to a main road, and it had to have a substantial dwelling.
400
These were the three requirements the British government enforced when people received subsidized land settlements.
What is COFFIN SHIPS; called this because half of all immigrants who survived to Canada were seriously ill AND most people died.
400
Mackenzie (a radical leader) had these two goals in mind when trying to reform Canada.
What is American-style democracy and closer economic/social ties with the United States
500
The French Canadians of Lower Canada believed that the British were attempting to kill off the French population by bringing THIS DISEASE to North America.
What is the cholera epidemic.
500
French Canadians believed that this was Lord Durham's actual goal when he introduced the idea of government reform.
What is eradicating French culture from Canada.
500
Describe the different roles men and women had in early Canada.
MEN: manual labour, earn money, could vote, served in the army, etc.
WOMEN: have large families, clean, cook, plant crops, etc.
500
What belief caused the Europeans to travel to North America in the first place?
They thought they had a duty to "civilize" the world.
500
These are the three issues for reform that were focused on in Lower Canada.
What is discrimination against the French, lack of representation in government, and taxes.