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London Conference
Quebec Conference
Charlottetown Conference
Red River Rebellions
Confederation
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The date of the London Conference
What is, December 4, 1866?
100
This is where the Quebec Conference was held, and the number of resolutions were made at this conference (which turned into the British North America Act in 1867).
What is, Quebec City, and 72 Resolutions?
100
This is the month and year the Charlottetown Conference was held.
What is, September 1864?
100
A Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He sought to preserve Métis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.
Who is, Louis Riel?
100
This was the last province to join Canada, and the year it joined.
What is, Newfoundland, 1949?
200
The London Conference was the third of three conferences organized for this purpose.
What is, to join together provinces and form the Dominion of Canada?
200
Of the three conferences that lead to the formation of the Dominion of Canada, this was the ______.
What is, the second conference?
200
The first discussions at the conference were held in Charlottetown, P.E.I., with delegates from these provinces.
What is, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and P.E.I.?
200
The sequence of events that lead to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.
What is, the Red River Resistance?
200
This Canadian politician was regarded as a traitor by the Irish Fenians, and murdered for his loyalty to Sir John A. Macdonald.
Who is, Thomas D’arcy McGee?
300
These are the places where the delegates involved in the London Conference were from.
What is, Britain, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick?
300
The delegates discussed these two main issues at the Quebec Conference.
What is, the composition of Parliament and the distribution of power between federal and provincial governments?
300
The second day of meetings were held in Halifax, Saint John, and Fredericton. Initially, the Maritime provinces did not want to form a union with these two provinces.
What is, Ontario and Quebec?
300
Louis Riel retuned to Red River and became the leader of the Metis Resistance after this happened.
What is, his fiancé’s parents rejected him because he was Metis?
300
British Columbia agreed to join the Dominion of Canada because Sir John A. make this promise.
What is, to build a railway connecting Canada from coast to coast (the Canadian Pacific Railway)?
400
French Canadians resisted Confederation for they feared becoming this.
What is, assimilated into English culture?
400
It was determined that the federal government would be responsible for these three areas of governance.
What is, currency (money), international trade, and criminal law?
400
The Maritime provinces wanted the Ontario government to agree to help fund this, if a domion were to be formed.
What is, a railway connecting the Maritime provinces to Ontario and Quebec?
400
In the 1860s as tension mounted between the Canadian Government and Metis people of the Red River, the first signs of trouble came when this group of people rode into the Red River from Ottawa.
What are, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
400
John A. Macdonald accepted bribes from private investors to fund his political campaign (to run for P.M. for a second time.) In turn he would hire that private investor to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. This illegal interaction ruined Macdonald's reputation, resulted in him losing his position as P.M. and is known as the _______________.
What is, the Pacific Scandal?
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The London Conference, from December 1866 to February 1867, was the final stage of translating the 72 Resolutions of 1864 into legislation. The act was signed on __________, and became law on __________.
What is 29 March 1867, and 1 July 1867?
500
It was determined that Ontario, Quebec, and the three Maritime provinces would each have 24 seats in the appointed chamber. There would be two houses in the Federal government. These were __________. Individuals would be elected to the ________ and appointed to the _________.
What is, the House of Commons and the Senate? (x2)
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This conference was an example of how public debate and discussion can lead to unity and change. Though the delegates met to discuss _________, they in the end ____________________________.
What is, discuss Maritime Union, in the end participants agreed to work towards the far grander scheme of Confederation, without P.E.I., and with the addition of ON and QC?
500
The Red River inhabitants were continually in conflict with the HBC, particularly over trading privileges. By the 1850s, the company's rule was under attack from Britain, Canada and the United States, and by the 1860s it had agreed to surrender its monopoly over Rupert's Land and the North West, including the Red River settlement. Despite their efforts, the Metis ended up losing their rights and land even though the ___________ stated they would keep both rights and land.
What is, the Manitoba Act?
500
Despite the fact that they were not invited to attend any of the conferences that led to the Dominion of Canada, Indigenous Peoples of Canada were impacted by Confederation. What was the name of this act, it impacted Indigenous Peoples of Canada in the following way _________________.
What is, the British North America Act, and, the federal government assumed responsibility over Indigenous affairs from Indigenous Peoples and the colonies?