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Law Lore
Long Lasting Effects
Important Peoples
Miscellaneous
100

What year were the Americas discovered by the Portuguese exploration fleet?

What is 1492?

100

This is the first legal document ever discovered.

What is the code of Ur-Nammu?

100

This was the method of Cultural Genocide against the First Nation peoples employed by the Canadian Government as a result of the Indian Act.

What are Residential Schools?

100

This explorer is widely known for discovering North and South America.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

What ancestry do the Metis have? 

What are European and Indigenous?

200

What year was the Gradual Enfranchisement Act passed?

What was 1869?

200

This code details "An Eye for an Eye".

What is the Code of Hammurabi?

200

Before the Indian Act, Many First Nations operated by this type of Economy.

What is Gift Economy?

200

This Person was responsible for the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which provided the Basis for buying Indigenous land through formal treaties.

Who is King George III?

200

What does the term 'Band' mean in regard to the Indian Act?

What is a body of First Nation Peoples?

300

What year was the Indian Act formerly Passed?

What is 1876?

300

Instead of Retributive justice, many First Nation peoples practiced this type of Justice before it was outlawed by an amendment to the Indian Act.

What is Circular Justice?

300

This Problem in Canada can be derived from sexist laws passed before and after the Indian Act.

What are Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?

300

This British Governor was responsible for signing the Friendship Treaties.

Who is William Dummer Powell?

300

What level of Government was the Indian Act passed by?

What is Federally?

400

What year was 'The Gradual Civilization Act' passed?

What is 1857?

400

This type of law is a form of legal reasoning that focuses on specific cases or scenarios to derive and apply general principles.

What is Casuistic law?

400

What two groups of Indigenous people were excluded from the Indian Act?

Who are the Metis and Inuit?

400

What is the Name of the man who commissioned the Indian Act?

Who is David Laird?

400

This act gave a legal definition of First Nations.

What is the Act of 1850?

500

What year was the Act of 1850 passed?

What is 1850?

500

Who do some Scholars argue co-created the code of Ur Nammu?

Who is Shulgi of Ur

500

Which Document was drawn up to resolve the many problems caused by the Canadian Government to the First Peoples?

What are the 94 Calls to Action?

500

This was the Prime Minister of Canada when the Indian Act was passed.

Who is Alexander Mackenzie?

500

This Coast Salish tradition was outlawed by an amendment to the Indian Act in 1895.

What is a Potlatch?