Political Deadlock And Canadien Rights
A legal entitlement claim or authority.
What is a right
Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
What were the first 4 provinces to join the confederation?
This country Canada was worried might try to take it over in the 1800s.
What is United States
Canada acquired Rupert's land and building of the Canadian pacific.
Western Expansion
Britain’s colonies supplied Britain with raw resources at a price that Britain set. Britain then used these resources to produce manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
When eastern and western Canada had the same amount of seats in the elected assembly but had completely different goals.
What is political deadlock
The act that established confederation in 1867.
What was the BNA act?
This prime minister strengthened Canada's economy and railway system to reduce dependence on the USA.
Who is John A Macdonald?
This province joined Canada in 1871 after being promised a transcontinental railway. Additionally, joining the confederation provided a way to escape debt from the gold rush era.
What is British Columbia?
The United States added a tariff to goods from British North America.
What happened when the Reciprocity Treaty ended?
The constitution would give the federal government the power to carve Canadien rights in stone.
Why was the constitution viewed as a way to guarantee the rights of Canadiens?
Health and welfare, education, and natural resources.
Some of the responsibilities of the provincial government established by the BNA act.
This event is 1867 united the colonies partly to protect against US expansion
What is Canadian confederation?
This vast territory was transferred to Canada in 1870 dramatically expanding the country westward.
What is Rupert's land?
Usually used to describe a tax on goods crossing an international boundary.
What is a tariff?
The two Canadas had very different populations with different compositions of people.
What were the reasons the two Canadas had different goals?
1905
What was the date that Alberta joined the confederation?
This purchase raised concern about American presence in the north.
What was the Alaska purchase?
This crop became the economic backbone of prairie settlement in the late 1800s
What is wheat?
Farmers and merchants would see this as a problem because it meant that they would not be able to sell their goods for as much without having to pay a large sum if their goods were crossing into the United States.
What were tariffs set by the US/Why was the end of the Reciprocity Treaty harmful?
The Federal government might hold too much power and not use it in the best interest of Canadiens
Why was the constitution viewed as a threat to Canadien culture by some people?
Public property, defense, criminal law, and banks.
Some of the responsibilities of the federal government established by the BNA act.
Both people in the late 1800s living in Canada and some people living in Canada today are worried about the power and eagerness to expand in the United States.
One similarity between Canada then and now.
In 1905 this province was created from the northwest territories as settlement increased
What is Saskatchewan?
In 1865 this event put economic pressure on British North America because they no longer had special trading circumstances with the newly formed United States.
What was the end of the Reciprocity Treaty?