Indigenous Regions
These Indigenous people live mainly in the Arctic region of Canada.
Inuit
This animal’s fur was used to make popular hats in Europe.
Beaver
A person who moves to a new land to live there permanently.
Settler
The name of the revolution fought between Britain and the 13 colonies.
The American Revolution
The year the Constitutional Act was passed.
1791
The Indigenous Plains people lived on the Plains and depended heavily on this animal for survival.
Bison
This group often trapped animals and traded furs with Europeans.
Indigenous People
Farm families who worked the land in New France.
habitants
Colonists who wanted independence from Britain.
Patriots
The colony where most English settlers lived.
Upper Canada
This coastal region used cedar trees to build plank houses, canoes, and totem poles.
Northwest Coast
This company was created in 1670 and became very powerful in the fur trade.
Hudsons Bay Company
This religion the French wanted settlers in New France to follow.
Catholicism
What was the main reason the 13 colonies rebelled against Britain?
The colonies had no say in the decision making/Government
The representative of the British Crown who governed the colony.
Governor
This Indigenous group are descendants of both First Nations and European settlers.
Metis
This French explorer built a trading post in Quebec City.
Samuel de Champlain
A landowner who controlled a large area of land in New France who were also men that the King of France liked.
seigneur
What was the last straw that prompted the revolution?
Raising of the taxes
The Constitutional Act is also known as the Canada Act and it had 4 main objectives. What is one of the objectives?
1. Guarantee the same rights to all people living in British North America
2. Give the two provinces the right to set taxes and set up legal administration
3. Allow Upper and Lower Canada to create their own provincial legislations that represented their people and their culture
4. Give authority to a new leader – named the governor. The governor would become the true representative of the Crown – Leader in Britain
This ceremony on the Northwest Coast involved giving gifts to guests. In 1885, the Canadian government banned these ceremonies.
Potlach
French traders who travelled inland to trade furs directly with First Nations.
coureurs des bois
This person was someone who belonged to The Society of Jesus, which meant they were priests who educated in religion and able to spread the word of God.
Jesuit Priest
The British finally signed this treaty in 1783, which gave the settlers their independence from Britain. All British troops had to leave the 13 colonies which ended the American Revolution.
Paris Treaty in 1783
Why did the British government divide Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada?
To separate French and English settlers so each group could have laws and government that matched their culture.