This test covers content and understanding from our units on the People of Early Canada, Gaining Responsible Government and Confederation, and Geography. Choose the BEST answer(s). (Checkboxes allow more than one answer)
Senate
Cabinet
House of Commons
Privy Council
Senate
Cabinet
House of Commons
Privy Council
A small, select group of people
One person who has all the power
A king or a queen
No formal leader
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
Cholera
Sleeplessness
Crowded Conditions
Starvation
None of the above
Britain had attempted to unite the two colonies
Canadiens thought that the British were purposely sending immigrants with cholera to Lower Canada
Britain did not allow the French to practice Catholicism
Britain had attempted to make the official language of Canada English
None of the above
St Denis
St Charles
St Eustache
Montgomery's Tavern
Carrots
Beats
Potatoes
Rice
Potato blight
Landlords evicted tenants to create land for grazing
The government offered absolutely no help in the famine
Tenants could not pay their landlords rent
The King of Ireland wanted them out
None of the above
Adventure
Canada abolished slavery
Escape lynching
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
None of the above
Executive Council
Legislative Council
Governor General
Legislative Assembly
Executive Council
Legislative Council
Governor General
Legislative Assembly
Louis Joseph Papineau
Egerton Ryerson
Robert Gourlay
William Lyon Mackenzie
The Clergy were reserving all the gold in the country
Colonists could not build roads through Clergy Reserves
The Clergy Reserves were placed in remote areas
Colonists demanded more Clergy Reserves so they could access churches more easily
Wealthy landowners, leaders of the church, members of the Executive Council
The governor and his family
Members of the Assembly
Poor farmers and their wives
Lower Canada
Northwest Territory
Rupert's Land
Upper Canada
China and Japan
Great Britain and Eastern Europe
Great Britain and the USA
France and the USA
France and Eastern Europe
French and British landowners, merchants and military men
British farmers and merchants
French landowners, merchants and military men
French and British farmers and merchants
British landowners, merchants and military men
Habitants
Chateau Clique
Legislative Assembly
Fils de la Liberte
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