Unit 2: British North America

Question 1

War of 1812

Answer 1

Created Canadian identity (rejecting US republicanism). Fought in Upper and Lower, Great Lakes and is. Treaty of Ghent ended it.

Question 2

Act of Union 1841

Answer 2

Combined Upper/Lower Canada. Attempted to assimilate the French with a duel Union. Debts are pooled, English is off, backfired.

Question 3

Responsible Government

Answer 3

Answers to the people, people power. Self-governing for internal affairs.

Question 4

Reciprocity Agreement 1854

Answer 4

Britain no longer offered trade with Canadian colonies, strengthened ties to US instead and opened free trade between the two.

Question 5

Loyalists

Answer 5

Fled to Canada because of loyalty to Britain. Created upper/ English Canada.

Question 6

Durham Report

Answer 6

Published on why the upper and lower Canada rebellions took place.

Question 7

John Graves Simcoe

Answer 7

1st Lt. Governor of Upper Canada. Laid foundations for much larger colony (envisioned a centre of British Power)

Question 8

Constitution Act of 1791

Answer 8

Britain attempt to balance oligarchy, aristocratic and democratic principles; government held a lot of power.