Chapter 6

Question 1

United Empire Loyalists

Answer 1

People who opposed the rebellion.

Wanted to remain loyal to the king of Britain

Question 2

Patriots

Answer 2

People who supported the rebellion. Patriotic to their country (United states)

Question 3

What was tarring and feathering. Why might it happen to someone.

Answer 3

When you got hot tar and a sack of feathers dumped on your head. It happened to loyalists to pressure them to become Patriots

Question 4

Why did Americans rebel against Britain

Answer 4

Britain was in debt from 7 years war and they were going to station troops on the 13 colonies but charge for them. People refused to pay. Said No Taxation Without Representations

Question 5

How did the Loyalist migration impact the Canadiens

Answer 5

It greatly increase the number of British people in Quebec.
Loyalists were farmers and their settlements took more land away from the First Nations
British wanted British laws and customs in Quebec and the Canadians were afraid they would lose their way of life

Question 6

How did the loyalist migration impact the first Nations

Answer 6

Before the loyalists came Britain had treaties of peace and friendship but once the loyalists came the British took the land away from the first nations, said they weren’t on Indian territory so they had to leave their hunting and fishing grounds.

Question 7

What did the government receive from the loyalist

Answer 7

Petitions- asking to allow British laws and customs instead of French ones, St. John river colonists asked for Britain to be their own colony

Question 8

How did the government respond to these concerns

Answer 8

Divided Quebec into upper and lower Canada.
Britain owed something to Loyalists because they fought for Britain in the war, but wanted to secure the French in Canada

Question 9

Why did the Americans invade British North America to trigger the war of 1812

Answer 9

Napoleonic wars in Europe were happening
Britain shut down trade between French and US it blocked American ships from landing in French ports. British Navy also began boarding American ships looking for British deserters. in retaliation the US declared war on the nearest part of British territory, British North America now known as Canada

Question 10

What position did the Canadiens take in regard to the war of 1812

Answer 10

Catholic Church opposed it and the republican government. During the war of 1812 it opposed the French republic and American republic but encouraged Canadians to fight for Britain and the monarchy

Question 11

German Mennonites

Answer 11

Suffered discrimination because they didn’t believe in war.

Question 12

In debt

Answer 12

To owe money

Question 13

Refugee

Answer 13

A person who seeks protection in another country to escape danger in their own country

Question 14

Canadiens

Answer 14

Descendant of the settlers of New France

Question 15

Coexistence

Answer 15

2 or more people of diverse cultures living together peacefully

Question 16

Petition

Answer 16

To ask for something in a formal way

Question 17

Revolution

Answer 17

A rapid, often violent change in a system of gov.

Question 18

Republic

Answer 18

A system of gov. that does not have a monarch

Question 19

Republican government

Answer 19

A government that has no monarch and is usually elected

Question 20

Immigration

Answer 20

The process of people establishing homes and citizenship in a country that is not their native country

Question 21

Reserve

Answer 21

An area of land set aside by a treaty for the use of the First Nations

Question 22

Assimilation

Answer 22

The process of becoming part of a different cultural group that is not your own

Question 23

Genealogists

Answer 23

Someone who researches family trees

Question 24

Representative government

Answer 24

When the people elect someone to represent them. Instead of the people voting directly on matters

Question 25

What was the role of Chief Tecumseh?

4 points

Answer 25

He began to organize First Nations to support the British. British gave them guns. They were allies not loyal, First Nations didn’t trust white men.

Question 26

How did the war contribute to the development of British identity in Canada?

Answer 26

Everyone in Canada came together to fight Americans. Created a bond.

Question 27

How did the war contribute to the defining of Canada’s political boundaries?

Answer 27

Negotiated boundary peacefully in a series of treaties ending in 1846 between British North America and the U.S. 
1814 to 1822: southern Ontario
1818: central Canada 
1842: prairies, Alberta, Saskatchewan
1846: the West Coast

Question 28

How did the settlers in upper Canada feel about the war of 1812?

Answer 28

Upper Canadians expressed strong support for Britain and strong opposition for American plans. Some American born settlers came for land for farming and some of them supported US invasions. Hoping the war would end quickly lots came as immigrants. The ones that sided with Americans, after the war were deported from Canada