First Nations and Worldviews
Why did Europeans believe that the First Nations were inferior?
The absence of European technology and formal state institutions in the European model were seen as "proof" of inferiority.
The Quebec Act of 1774 did what?
This animal and this plant are two national symbols for Canada.
What are the beaver and the maple leaf?
This process occurs when cultures meet and adopt some practices while keeping their identity.
What is accommodation?
The names of your teacher's children.
This group of nations created one of the most advanced forms of democratic governance in pre-contact North America.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee?
This treaty ended the Seven Years’ War and gave Britain most of France’s land in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
In the Iroquois Confederacy, women played an important role by doing this in the leadership process.
What is nominating or removing chiefs?
European explorers first came to North America looking for this route.
What is a passage to Asia/Orient?
Canada’s newest territory and its creation date.
What is Nunavut, 1999?
While Europeans made decisions in a hierarchical way, the Iroquois model was described as this.
What is inclusive or democratic?
New France officially became a Royal Colony in this year.
What is 1663?
Colonists resisted British taxes with the slogan “no taxation without this.”
What is representation?
This belief kept cultures separated.
What is segregation?
The highest mountain in Canada.
What is Mount Logan?
One way the Great Law showed checks and balances was that major decisions, like declaring war, required this from all member nations.
What is unanimous approval or concensus?
This British law of 1763 attempted to assimilate French Catholics and restricted settlement westward.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This word describes a nation’s right to govern itself without outside control, a principle protected in the Great Law.
What is sovereignty?
This 1763 document set out British rules for governing New France and First Nations relations.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This river is Canada’s longest.
What is the Mackenzie River?
This principle stated leaders could be removed if they did not act in the people’s best interests under the "Great Law".
What is accountability?
The French and British fought the Seven Years' war in North America from what year to what year?
What is 1756 to 1763?
One of the major issues with the Constitutional Act of 1791.
What is the people and their vote could be vetoed?
What was one key difference between the Royal Proclamation and the Quebec Act in how they treated French culture?
The Proclamation tried to assimilate, while the Quebec Act accommodated.
Canada is the world leader in mining this mineral used in nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?