Key People & Groups
He was the leading British general during the War of 1812.
Who was Sir Isaac Brock?
This 1763 document recognized Indigenous land rights and limited British expansion.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
This imaginary line became the border between British North America and the U.S.
What is the 49th Parallel?
This term means that government is accountable to elected representatives, not a governor.
What is responsible government?
This was a conflict between the Métis and a group supported by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1816.
What is the Battle of Seven Oaks?
This group of people supported Britain during the American Revolution and moved north.
Who were the Loyalists?
This 1774 Act granted religious freedom to Catholics and expanded Quebec's borders.
What is the Quebec Act?
These two colonies were created by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
What are Upper and Lower Canada?
This idea meant representation in government would be based on a region’s population.
What is representation by population?
This resistance aimed to stop British expansion and protect Indigenous lands in 1763.
What is Pontiac’s Resistance?
This military leader was tried for challenging the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly.
Who was Guillaume Sayer?
This 1841 Act united Upper and Lower Canada into one colony.
What is the Act of Union?
This 1858 event brought thousands of miners to B.C.
What is the Gold Rush?
This 1864 meeting helped plan Canada’s Confederation.
What is the Quebec Conference?
This war between Britain and the U.S. began partly over trade restrictions and border issues.
What is the War of 1812?
This group of Irish nationalists raided Canada to pressure Britain.
Who were the Fenians?
This 1867 Act created the Dominion of Canada.
What is the British North America Act?
This was a violent conflict between American miners and Indigenous peoples during the Gold Rush.
What is the Fraser Canyon War?
These were the four provinces that originally joined Confederation in 1867.
What are Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?
This group lived in Red River and played a major role in the fur trade and resistance movements.
Who are the Métis?
He led a multi-nation Indigenous resistance against British expansion after the Seven Years' War.
Who was Pontiac?
This 19th-century Act was used to assimilate Indigenous peoples by removing their legal status.
What is the Enfranchisement Act?
These two expeditions explored the prairies and reported on the land’s suitability for settlement.
What are the Palliser and Hind expeditions?
This term described the inability of Canada East and Canada West to pass legislation due to equal representation in government.
What is political deadlock?
This belief was held by Americans that they were destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?