Chapter 4

Question 0

Define: Chateau clique

Answer 0

Ruling oligarchy in lower canada

Question 1

Define : Family compact

Answer 1

The ruling oligarchy in upper canada

Question 2

Define: Sermen du test

Answer 2

Oath swearing aligned to the Anglican Church

Question 3

Define: Tithe

Answer 3

Monet given by members of a congregation to support the church

Question 4

Define: Canadiens

Answer 4

Community of French Canadians living in Quebec during the British colonization of north America

Question 5

Define: assimilation

Answer 5

Absorption of a minority group into the culture of a majority group

Question 6

Define: loyalists

Answer 6

Residents of the 13 colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American war of independence

Question 7

Define: veto

Answer 7

Right to reject legislation and prevent it from passing

Question 8

Define: impressment

Answer 8

Forced service of American sailors into the British navy

Question 9

Define : sovereign

Answer 9

Autonomous; having the full and Independant rights of self government

Question 10

Define: conscientious objectors

Answer 10

People who refuse for ethical reasons to engage in war

Question 11

Define: responsible government

Answer 11

System in which a government is accountable to an electorate through regular elections

Question 12

Define: coalition

Answer 12

Temporary alliance between two political parties

Question 13

Define: oligarchy

Answer 13

Political system in which power is held by a small number of people

Question 14

Define: war hawks

Answer 14

An advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

Question 15

Who is Pontiac?

Answer 15

Ozawa First Nations chief who successfully united the Ohio valley First Nations tribe to form a resistance against the British in 1762-1763

Question 16

Who is James Murray?

Answer 16

First Governor General of British North America

Question 17

Who is Sir Guy Carlton?

Answer 17

Second Governor General of British North America

Question 18

Who is Sir Isaac Brock?

Answer 18

Head of the British forces in canada during the war of 1812

Question 19

Who is Laura Secord?

Answer 19

British ally during the war if 1812

Question 20

Who is Tecumseh?

Answer 20

Shawnee fn leader who was an important all to the British during the war o 1812

Question 21

Who is Louis- Joseph Papineau?

Answer 21

Supported the reform movement in lower canada through his newspaper

Question 22

Who is William Mackenzie

Answer 22

Supported the reform movement in upper canada through his newspaper

Question 23

Who is Lord Durham?

Answer 23

Governor General of canada sent to canada after the rebellions of 1837 to determine what the problems were in upper and lower canada

Question 24

What are the key points to the royal proclamation? What brought about this change? Who and how were they most affected?

Answer 24

British wanted to reduce French Canadian culture and language I order to promote British immigration in Quebec .
FN: protected their hunting grounds (reserved land west of the proclamation line), British gain full control of the phono valley not the First Nations
French Canadians: established the province of Quebec and it’s first civil government, French civil laws were abolished( church could not accept tithe), if Catholics wanted to be apart of government you had to take the sermon du test swearing your Allegiance

Question 25

What are the main concessions of the Quebec act of 1774? What was the reaction of the 13 colonies ? Why did they react this way?

Answer 25

• enlarged Quebec’s territory to include the Ohio valley
  -guaranteed the preservation of French language and restored French civil and property laws
  -reinstated tithe ; allowed Catholics to be apart of government
  Reaction: upset because they wanted the Ohio valley and it meant the British living in Quebec would continue to be minorities in a French society ( they had been promised it would be assimilated into English society)

Question 26

Constitutional act 1791:

Answer 26

• each upper and lower canada were controlled by oligarchies ( upper canada= family compact! lower canada = chateau clique)
• recognized English and French as two dominant groups and allowed each to maintain its own language, laws , land-owning system and religion
• each upper and lower canada has their own go owner and legislative and executive council
• an unfair distribution of power

Question 27

Act of union 1841:

Answer 27

United upper and lower Canada into one colony with one go inner and one elected assembly