Unit 2: British North America Flashcards
War of 1812
Created Canadian identity (rejecting US republicanism). Fought in Upper and Lower, Great Lakes and is. Treaty of Ghent ended it.
Act of Union 1841
Combined Upper/Lower Canada. Attempted to assimilate the French with a duel Union. Debts are pooled, English is off, backfired.
Responsible Government
Answers to the people, people power. Self-governing for internal affairs.
Reciprocity Agreement 1854
Britain no longer offered trade with Canadian colonies, strengthened ties to US instead and opened free trade between the two.
Loyalists
Fled to Canada because of loyalty to Britain. Created upper/ English Canada.
Durham Report
Published on why the upper and lower Canada rebellions took place.
John Graves Simcoe
1st Lt. Governor of Upper Canada. Laid foundations for much larger colony (envisioned a centre of British Power)
Constitution Act of 1791
Britain attempt to balance oligarchy, aristocratic and democratic principles; government held a lot of power.