LAND CONFLICTS & THE MÉTIS
Descendants of French Fur Traders and First Nations People.
What is the Métis?
The date Louis Riel took over Fort Garry and made it his headquarters.
What is November 2, 1869?
The date Manitoba officially became a province.
What is July 15, 1870?
The three main duties of the North West Mounted Police.
What is to keep the peace, prevent crime, and catch criminals?
What the Canadian government promised to build for British Columbia in exchange for joining Confederation.
What is a railway to connect British Columbia to the other provinces?
The land at the back of a Métis farm where the farmer cut his hay.
What is "hay privilege" land?
The purpose of Riel's provisional government.
What is to negotiate the terms under which Manitoba would become part of Canada?
The meaning of the name Manitoba, which comes from Cree and Assiniboine words.
What is "the spirit that speaks"?
The reason law enforcement was needed in the Northwest Territories.
What is American traders were selling whiskey to the First Nations and settlers, people were being robbed and murdered, and there was no one to stop it?
The year the Canadian Pacific Railway finished construction.
What is 1885?
The Métis were upset with government surveyors because they marked up the land as if the Canadian government already owned it, and the Métis worried their land would be stolen.
What is the reason the Métis were upset with the surveyors?
The big mistake Louis Riel made that set off many protests in Ontario.
What is he held a court martial and had Thomas Scott shot on March 4, 1870?
Two reasons the Canadian government wanted to buy Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company.
What is so it could become part of the Confederation and prevent American annexation?
The 1873 incident that convinced Prime Minister John A. Macdonald that the west needed a police force, where more than 30 Assiniboine men, women, and children were killed.
What is the Cypress Hills Massacre?
A trade tax or fee that increases the prices of certain manufactured goods.
What is a tariff?
The organization Louis Riel and John Bruce formed to negotiate with the Canadian government.
What is the National Committee of the Métis?
Three demands from the Métis List of Rights.
What is the right to elect their own Legislative Assembly, the right to approve or reject federal laws concerning Manitoba, separated Protestant and Catholic schools paid for by the government, French and English as official languages, and/or treaties with First Nations people?
The geographic feature that made Manitoba attractive to Canadian settlers and immigrants.
What is wide-open prairies that were good for farming?
The reasoning behind choosing scarlet red coats for the first Mounties.
What is many First Nations had been friendly with British soldiers, and it was hoped these uniforms would gain their respect?
What John A. Macdonald intended the National Policy to move East-West instead of North-South.
What is Canadian money and Canadian people?
Three reasons why Louis Riel was a natural leader of the Métis.
What is his fluency in French and English, his education, and his pride in his Métis heritage?
How English settlers from Ontario regarded Louis Riel, even though Riel believed he was just trying to protect his people's rights.
What is they felt Riel and his group were rebels?
Two terms of the Manitoba Act that met the demands of the Métis.
What is English and French as official languages in government and courts, and Protestant and Catholic schools paid for by the government?
The reason Lieutenant-Colonel James Macleod was so successful in his dealings with the First Nations people.
What is he worked well with the First Nations to enforce the laws and gained a reputation for fairness?
The reason Macdonald wanted to put a high tariff on goods coming from the United States.
What is to make American goods more expensive so Canadians would look for less expensive options made in Canada, encouraging East-West trade instead of North-South trade?