Canadian History - Unit 2

During the , Canada grew much closer to the United States for a variety of reasons.

Cold War

In 1931, _ made Canada a completely autonomous nation-state.

The British Statute of Westminster

French-speaking people of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry who lived in what would become Manitoba, were known as what?

Metis

In what year did Canada finally gain the ability to change its own constitution?

1982

When were Vikings first thought to have reached Canada?

800-1000 CE

From 1791-1867, Canada was known earlier as _.

British North America

Who were the first people living in the territory that is now Canada?

Indigenous Peoples

Early European colonists, such as the French, pursued the wealth of what trade?

The fur trade

Who was the metis leader the resisted Canada's occupation of lands, and was the one of the first to raise the question of minority rights in the new dominion?

Louis Riel

Though Canadians celebrate July 1, 1867 as Canada's birthday, the British North America Act did not make Canada an independent country because of what reasoning?

The BNA Act didn't give Canada notable powers like relations with other countries, or the power to amend its constitution

What are the 6 regions that the cultural groupings would refer to the peoples

Northwest Coast; the Interior Plateau; the Plains; the Subarctic; the Arctic; and the Northeast

Who was the French person where their settlement started in 1604

Samuel De Champlain

Who was in charge of the fur

The Indigenous women

Who won the seven year war and reshaped the French and English colonists, same with the Indigenous people?

The British

After the end of the war of independence, who is still in conflict with each other

Britain and the United States