chapter 2

Question 1

How was life hard for poor people in the Victorian era

Answer 1

Tiny one to two room cottages
Long hours with bad pay
No health insurance or government assistance

Question 2

What is the Victorian era

Answer 2

When Queen Victoria ruled

Question 3

Where did most Canadian immigrants come from

Answer 3

Ireland and Scotland

Question 4

Which people are called Victorians

Answer 4

People who were a part of the British Empire when Queen Victoria ruled

Question 5

Who was Emily Stowe

Answer 5

First Canadian who became a female doctor in the British Empire

Question 6

What was Canada’s first newspaper

Answer 6

Halifax Gazette founded in 1752

Question 7

What is a federation

Answer 7

A federal union in which the members keep certain powers themselves and certain to the government

Question 8

We’re the French and people in maritimes against the federal union

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

What is mercantilism

Answer 9

An economic system based on colonialism

Home country takes raw materials in from its colonies and manufactures goods then sold for properties

Question 10

What are corn laws

Answer 10

Laws which protect British agriculture

Question 11

How did the reappealing of the corn laws affect Canada economy

Answer 11

It went into a depression as there wasn’t a lot of manufacturing happening

Question 12

who was Lord Elgin

Answer 12

governor of the Canada’s
Son in law of Lord Durham

Job was to start a responsible government

Question 13

What was Britain’s viewpoint on the responsible government in Canada

Answer 13

It was happy that Canada would cease to be its responsibility as it was expense to support the colonies

Question 14

What was the Rebellion Losses Bill

Answer 14

In 1843 , the reformist government passed a bill giving financial compensation to anyone who lost property during the rebellions

Question 15

Was anyone against the Rebellion Losses Bill

Answer 15

Yes
Lord Elgin and anti revel forces

It started riots and violence

Question 16

What was then annexation manifesto

Answer 16

A plan for the United States to take over Canada

Question 17

What are the advantages of Confederation

Answer 17

Economic stability for Canada

Colonies could trade with each other

A central government could build an intercolonial railway for defense and trade

Have a better chance of not being taken over by the USA

A better way of governing Canada

Question 18

Who won the American Civil War

Answer 18

The Northern Yankees

Question 19

Did Britain support the Northern Yankees or the Southern Confederates

Answer 19

The Southern Confederates

Question 20

What were the 4 government parties in Canada

Answer 20

Parti Rouge
Parti Bleu
Clear Grits
Tories

Question 21

What was the Parti Rouge

Answer 21

A small radical party in Canada East led by Louis Joseph Papineau
Attracted English speaking farmers an business men opposed to English
They favored an American style government and disliked the Act of Union

Question 22

What was the Parti Bleu

Answer 22

The most powerful group in Canada East
Led by George Etienne Cartier
Focused on development and French Canadian rights
Relationship with the church so wide support
Ready to work with the English if no harm to the French

Question 23

What was the Clear Grits

Answer 23

Radical party in Canada West led by George Brown
Defended English interests and attacked corruption
Tried to make the province more democratic

Question 24

Who was George Brown

Answer 24

He was the leader of a radical party by the name of Clear Grits
He worked for the Toronto Globe newspaper
He hated the French and the Catholics

Question 25

What was the Tories

Answer 25

Another party in Canada West led by John A MacDonald
Less democratic views
Made a deal win Parti Bleu to form a liberal conservative government

Question 26

What’s a double majority

Answer 26

Both Canada East and West have to vote on things such as education , culture or religion

Question 27

What are the Maritime provinces

Answer 27

Nice Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland

Question 28

How much governments had been in power from 1849 to 1864

Answer 28

12

Question 29

What was the Great Coalition

Answer 29

MacDonald , Brown and Cartier worked together to save the government of Canada and unite all the colonies

Question 30

Why were the conferences and how many in total

Answer 30

They were meetings where representatives from all the colonies discussed confederation

There were 3 conferences in total
Charlottetown
Quebec
London

Question 31

What happened at the Charlottetown Conference

Answer 31

A Maritime union was discussed
Alexander Galt and the Great Coalition members convinced Samuel Tilly and Charles Tupper of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Edward Whelan for PEI to have another conference

Question 32

What happened at the Quebec Conference

Answer 32

Created the seventy two resolutions

Blueprint for confederation

Question 33

What were the seventy two resolutions

Answer 33

Statements on the government

Question 34

What did Alexander Galt do

Answer 34

Land speculator and railway builder

Question 35

What happened at the London Conference

Answer 35

British parliament passed the British North America Act creating the Dominion of Canada

Question 36

What were the Fenian Raids

Answer 36

Irish society known as the Fenians wanted to harm Britain by attacking Canada

It helped people realized that confederation was needed