An English speaking British colony located "up" the St. Lawrence River
What is Upper Canada
100
American's who did not support the American Revolution.
Who are loyalists?
100
The group of English elite who controlled Lower Canada
What is the Chateau Clique
100
Name for cargo ships used to transport immigrants to Canada - on which disease killed many passengers.
What is a "coffin ship"
100
Someone who wishes to achieve change through negotiation.
What is a moderate reformer.
200
a mostly French-speaking colony located on the "down-river" part of the St. Lawrence River
What is Lower Canada
200
The upper classes in Britain.
What is "gentry"?
200
The system of one man owning land and "renting" it to farmers in exchange for their labour and produce.
What is the seigneurial system.
200
Most immigrants came from these countries to Canada.
What is England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
200
The right to cancel legislation passed by another group
What is a veto?
300
An overseas possession that a country governs and uses for it's own benefit
What is a "colony"
300
An economic system of trading goods and services.
What is a barter economy
300
A society in which those born into "privileged groups" have rights and advantages that others don't (the upper class wanted this, the lower class were trying to escape it)
What is the class system?
300
This water borne disease killed many on the coffin ships as well as during an outbreak in 1822 in Lower Canada.
What is cholera
300
A land surveyor who drew up a list of grievances about Upper Canada's government. He was arrested and sent out of the colony.
Who is Robert Gourlay
400
People descended from fur traders and Aboriginal people.
Who are the "Metis"?
400
A landowner who purchases land and sells it for a higher price.
What is a land speculator
400
When you (or a country) spend more money than they take in. This leads to being in debt.
What is deficit.
400
Many American slaves escaped to Canada using this elaborate system of safe houses and passages.
What is The Underground Railway
400
A small select group that controls a government.
What is an oligarchy?
500
The collective name fo New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland & Labrador.
What is "Maritime Colonies"
500
The small, elite group of upper class men.
What is the Family Compact.
500
The capital of "Upper Canada" now known as Toronto.
What is York?
500
To legally end slavery.
What is abolition.
500
Taxes, lack of representation in government and descrimination against the French.