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History Ch 3.1 Notes Flashcards

1
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Canada

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2nd largest country in the world.

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Kanata

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Iroquois word for “village”

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3
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Canadian North

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the tundra and boreal forest

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Arctic Islands

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Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island

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Hudson Bay

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the world’s largest bay

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St. Lawrence Seaway

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the world’s largest inland seaway

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Great Lakes

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Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario are connected together by the St. Lawrence Seaway. ⅕ of the world’s fresh water supply are in the Great Lakes

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Niagara Falls

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North America’s largest waterfall shared by Canada and the USA

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Northern Lakes

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Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake

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Mackenzie River

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Canada’s longest river

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Western Cordillera

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mountain chain that reaches from the southern tip of South America to the Arctic Circle. (Canadian Rockies are in the Western Cordilleras.)

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Eric the Red

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discovered Greenland

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Leif Ericson

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(Eric’s son, Leif) discovered North America, probably the Island of
Newfoundland.

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Christopher Columbus

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the first modern explorer to discover the New World; began the
“age of exploration”

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John Cabot

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the first explorer to discover mainland North America

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NorthWest Passage

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imaginary passage from the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean through Northern Canada.

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Jacques Cartier

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French explorer who gave France a claim to Canada in the New World

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Samuel De Champlain

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helped build Quebec as a French settlement in 1604

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Hudson’s Bay Company

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Canada’s oldest business that is still operating today

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French and Indian War

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war declared between France and England because of
conflicts over boundaries that were not clearly established around their territories.

21
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Dominion of Canada

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a commonwealth formed in 1867 and reached full
independence from England in 1982

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