chapter 4

Question 1

What kind of policy did the NWC have and how was different of HBC

Answer 1

NWC had a go get it policy and sent employees to get the fur while HBC had a stay by the bay policy

Question 2

Which company forced celibacy upon their employees

Answer 2

HBC

Question 3

Which two rivers were where the red river colony was

Answer 3

The red river and Assiniboine river

Question 4

What was the agricultural system France

Answer 4

Seigneurial pattern

Question 5

A Scotsman who brought tenant farmers from Scotland

Answer 5

Lord Selkirk

Question 6

What are tenant farmers called

Answer 6

Crofters

Question 7

What was the pemmican proclamation

Answer 7

The sale of Pemmican was banned to save money for HBC

Question 8

Who was the little emperor

Answer 8

George Simpson was the little emperor as he was short yet ruled with an iron fist

Question 9

What was the orange order

Answer 9

A Protestant group made up of anti Metis, French or Roman Catholics

Question 10

What is a temper pray givernment also known as

Answer 10

A provisional government

Question 11

What does the word Metis mean

Answer 11

French word for mixed

Native and Europeans

Question 12

Who was cuthbert grant

Answer 12

First leader of Metis. He got the title of leader of the plains but he was in the hip pocket of HBC so he lost control soon

Question 13

Who was founder of Northwester newspaper

Answer 13

John Schultz who was very anti-metis

Question 14

What happened to Thomas Scott that tipped the scales during the red river rebellion and why

Answer 14

Thomas Douglas Scott was killed after he threatened to get his revenge on the Metis including Louis Riel. His murder made the Canadians very angry which tipped the scales during the battle.

Question 15

Who was Louis Riel and what did he do or want

Answer 15

A Metis man who fought for their rights

He established provisional government, restored Metis rights and wanted Manitoba to be part of the federation.

Question 16

What the end result of the red river rebellion

Answer 16

Metis received 200000 hectares of land

Manitoba became a part of he federation

Question 17

When did Manitoba become a part of the confederation

Answer 17

May 2, 1870

Question 18

Where did Louis Riel go after being banned from Canada

Answer 18

He went to USA and spent the next 15 years there

Question 19

Did HBC and NWC merge. If so when and why

Answer 19

HBC and NWC merged in 1821 after the battle of Seven Oaks as it was the only way to survive.

Question 20

In what year and who sold Rupert’s land to to the Canadian Government.

Answer 20

In the month of November, 1869 the Hudson Bay Company sold Rupert’s land to the Canadian government

Question 21

What are the several uses of bison

Answer 21

Moccasins 
Winter clothes
robes from hides
Horns to make powder horns
Meat for pemmican
Sinew to sew clothes

Question 22

What are the 2 most deadly disease given to Metis by Europeans

Answer 22

Measles and small pox

Question 23

Which animal was a fur trade must

Answer 23

The beaver

Question 24

What is fort Garry known as today

Answer 24

Winnipeg