chp. 6 Becoming Canada

Question 1

When did Hundreds of thousands of British immigrants come.

Answer 1

1763 and 1850

Question 2

Why were the people living in the thirteen colonies

not happy?

Answer 2

They had to pay high tax’s, they could only trade with the home country, and they wanted more control over their affairs.

Question 3

In 1775, They thought the Canadiens

would see them as __________.

Answer 3

liberators

Question 4

How many people who lived in Britain were loyal to Britain?

Answer 4

A third of the population

Question 5

During and after the war, almost ______

Loyalists migrated to the British colonies.

Answer 5

40 000

Question 6

Everyone who lived in the thirteen colonies supported the rebellion. TRUE OR FALSE?

Answer 6

FALSE

Question 7

The black people received more land than others, TRUE OR FALSE?

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

Loyalists also streamed north into ______.

Answer 8

Québec.

Question 9

Why couldn’t Britain and the

United States get along?

Answer 9

Britain was at war with France. It stopped
Americans from trading with the French.
• The British were kidnapping American
sailors to serve in the British navy.
• The British were supporting the First
Nations in the struggle for land.

• Some Americans wanted to take over
Britain’s colonies.

Question 10

Loyalist’s had come
for cheap land, not because they were loyal
to _______.

Answer 10

Britain

Question 11

What year was the Treaty of Ghent signed in?

Answer 11

1814.

Question 12

After the war, Britain was eager to open up the backwoods to farming. It planned to fill its colonies with people from where?

Answer 12

England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland

Question 13

Why did so many people want to leave

Britain to live in the colonies?

Answer 13

In Britain, the population was growing
rapidly, but jobs were scarce.
• Farmers were being forced off the land.
• Poverty and hunger were common.
Ireland suffered a terrible famine, forcing
many rural people to flee.
• With peace, ocean travel was now safer.
• The colonies offered free land, new
opportunities, and a chance for a better
life.

Question 14

Immigrants travelled from Britain to Canada
by _____. and For those with money, there
were amazing cabins with comfortable beds. true or false

Answer 14

ships.

false

Question 15

So many people died on these voyages that

they called the boats coffin ships TRUE OR FALSE.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

At first, about _______ immigrants arrived
from Britain each year. Two-thirds were
from Ireland. Then, in 1847, immigration
from Ireland leapt to 100 000. TRUE OR FALSE.

Answer 16

30 000, TRUE

Question 17

what was the disease that broke out on the ships?

Answer 17

the typhus epidemic.

Question 18

The War of 1812 ended in a ________.

Answer 18

deadlock

Question 19

The First Nations could claim no
victory. About ______ First Nations allies
died in the war.

Answer 19

15 000

Question 20

After the war, Britain was eager to open up the backwoods to farming. TRUE OR FALSE?

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

It planned to fill its colonies with people from _______, ________,______, and ________.

Answer 21

It planned to fill its
colonies with people from England,
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

Question 22

Then how did British North

America become a haven for people escaping slavery?

Answer 22

It was a country with no slavery, so they could escape there with underground railroad.

Question 23

Tensions grew. In time, these tensions boiled over into

_____ _________.

Answer 23

armed rebellion.

Question 24

The legislative assembly was elected,

and it had a lot of power. TRUE OR FALSE?

Answer 24

FALSE