Unit 2: British North America Flashcards

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War of 1812

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

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Act of Union 1841

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

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Responsible Government

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

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Reciprocity Agreement 1854

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

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Loyalists

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

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Durham Report

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

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John Graves Simcoe

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

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Constitution Act of 1791

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

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