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Building a Nation -6
Social Studies 7- Chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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Many French who remained in Canada after the French and Indian War were | poor farmers |
the name given descendants of French voyageurs and Indian women | metis |
a group of states or countries that join together for a common purpose | confederation |
the right to vote | suffrage |
someone who moves to a new country | immigrant |
a self-governing country under British rule | dominion |
a lawmaking body | legislature |
having to do with two languages | bilingual |
a person who favors separation from a political or religious unit | separatist |
a member of a force to maintain peace between the Indians and new settlers | Mounties |
an armed uprising carried out against the government | rebellion |
a member of the Lower Canada Assembly who wanted Lower Canada to become an independent country | Louis Papineau |
a Scottish immigrant, he led an uprising in Toronto to try to gain government reform | William Lyon Mackenzie |
the first Canadian explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean by land | Alexander Mackenzie |
two reasons why Canadians and immigrants traveled west in the late 1800's | farm the plains and find gold |
fought for women's right to vote in Canada after WWI | Nellie McClung |
a provision of the Constitution of 1982 requires the government of Canada to be organized under a | federal system |
Loyalists who moved to Canada in the late 1700's were promised | free land, food, and horses |
united Upper and Lower Canada into one dominion | The British North American Act of 1867 |
where the U.S. and Canada settled the conflict over Oregon Country | the 49th parallel |
British kings appointed ______________________ held power in Canadian government in the early 1800's | governors |
they united during the War of 1812 to keep the United States from trying to conquer Canada | all Canadians- French, British, and Indians |
they rebelled during the "Red River Rising" | metis |
the province where the Red River Valley once was | Manitoba |
Canada's development of industry was a direct result of their involvement in | the World Wars |
they worked on the transcontinental railroad | immigrants from China and Ireland |
began the greatest and quickest increase in wealth in the 1900's | the discovery of gold |
Canada entered this war on its own | WWII |
he was sent to investigate the cause of the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada | Earl of Durham |
Canada became completely independent in | 1982 |
nickname of the river that flowed north into the Arctic ocean | the River of Disappointment |
almost everyone left Dawson city because | the gold ran out |
whose rights were preserved in Canada's 1982 Constitution | French |
people in Quebec that would like to keep their French culture and create their own country | separatist |