Download CHI4U Chapters 8-12 Test Review Sheets Modified True/False

CHI4U Chapters 8-12 Test Review Sheets
Modified True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If false, change the identified word or phrase to make the statement true.
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1. Within ten years of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Quebec received several thousand English settlers.
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2. No colonies in Canada had elected assemblies prior to 1791.
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3. The Quebec Act was favourably received by the American colonists.
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4. After France joined the Americans against the English during the Revolution, most French Canadians supported the
Americans.
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5. The Iroquois peoples lost about 67 percent of the land they were granted after the American Revolution.
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6. Tecumseh was a Canadian Aboriginal war chief who attacked American settlers.
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7. Britain refused to give up her forts in the Ohio Valley.
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8. By 1812, most of the settlers of Upper Canada in were recent immigrants from England.
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9. The battles of Queenston Heights and Fort Detroit represented early American victories in the war.
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10. The main new transportation technologies in mid-19th century Canada were the railroad and steamship.
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11. Durham punished 141 rebels of Lower Canada by imprisoning them.
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12. Within ten years of Durham’s Report, Canada became the first colony in the British Empire to receive responsible
government.
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13. The Reciprocity Treaty called for the free flow of manufactured products between the colonies and the United
States.
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14. The Act of Union created the two colonies of Canada West and Canada East.
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15. The great French Canadian reformer of the 1840s was LaFontaine.
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16. Both Cartier and Macdonald agreed on the question of railway expansion.
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17. The attitude of the British government toward Confederation could be described as supportive.
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18. In the first federal election ever held in Canada, the separatist party of Nova Scotia won 18 of 19 seats in parliament.
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19. The Manitoba Act rejected most of the Métis List of Rights.
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20. The most influential supporter of British Columbia joining Confederation, Amor de Cosmos, was actually an
American.
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Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.(one mark each)
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21. The type of economic relationship between England and her colonies in the 1770s was called
a. Imperialism
b. Free Trade
c. Capitalism
d. Mercantilism
e. Shared Distribution
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22. The first Superintendent of the Iroquois Nations was
a. Joseph Brant
b. Mary Brant
c. Colonel Butler
d. William Johnson
e. John Simcoe
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23. Joseph Brant
a. was a full-blooded Mohawk war chief
b. was educated in England
c. organized the peoples to fight along side England
d. led the Mohawk people to Canada after the Revolution
e. all of the above
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24. Which of the following was not a cause of the War of 1812?
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a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
British failure to surrender Western forts
British kidnapping of American sailors
American failure to compensate loyalists
American seizure of Canadian supplies
Aboriginal attacks on Americans
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25. On June 18, 1812,
a. Great Britain declared war on the United States
b. United States declared war on Great Britain
c. United States declared war on Canada
d. United States declared war on Great Britain and Canada
e. Great Britain declared war on the United States and France
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26. Isaac Brock secured the first victory in the war at
a. Queenston Heights
b. Stoney Creek
c. Detroit
d. Lundy’s Lane
e. Michilimackinac
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27. The bloodiest battle of the War of 1812 was fought at
a. Queenston Heights
b. Chrysler’s Farm
c. Stoney Creek
d. York
e. Lundy’s Lane
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28. Which of the following was not an issue in Upper Canada prior to 1837?
a. religious freedom
b. Clergy Reserves
c. more powers for Assembly
d. funding for schools and roads
e. Crown Lands
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29. The reform party in Lower Canada was called
a. Parti Quebecois
b. Nationalists
c. Chateau Clique
d. Parti Patriote
e. Papineau
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30. Which of the following people was not an explorer in the Canadian North West
a. Samual Hearne
b. Alexander Mackenzie
c. David Thompson
d. Peter Newman
e. Matonabbee
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31. In the 1830s, the upper class in the colonies consisted of
a. government officials
b. military officers
c. educators
d. merchants
e. all of the above
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32. Which of the following reasons was not a reason for immigration to Canada in the early 1800s?
a. civil war in the United States
b. Industrial Revolution
c. enclosure of land for sheep grazing
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d.
e.
poverty and famine
soldiers receiving assistance
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33. The leading 19th century promoter of public education in Canada was
a. John Strachan
b. John Macdonald
c. Mary Shadd
d. George Brown
e. Egerton Ryerson
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34. Which of the following was not one of Durham’s aims?
a. assimilation of French Canadians
b. union of two Canadas
c. eventual Confederation
d. executive responsible to elected members of assembly
e. Canadian control over domestic issues
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35. British repeal of what legislation meant the adoption of free trade in 1846?
a. Colonial Bills
b. Constitutional Act
c. Tariff Laws
d. Corn Laws
e. Act of Union
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36. Who said “I wish to live and die a British subject”?
a. John A. Macdonald
b. George Cartier
c. Joseph Howe
d. Charles Tupper
e. Darcy McGee
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37. The Charlottetown Conference, to discuss Maritime Union, was not attended by the colony of
a. Canada
b. New Brunswick
c. Nova Scotia
d. Prince Edward Island
e. Newfoundland
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38. In 1867 the Constitution of Canada was called
a. The British North America Act
b. The Canada Act
c. The Charlottetown Accord
d. The Act of Union
e. Confederation
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39. Which of the following provinces was not one of the founding provinces of Canada?
a. Ontario
b. Quebec
c. New Brunswick
d. Nova Scotia
e. Prince Edward Island
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40. At what battle did Riel surrender to Canadian forces?
a. Duck Lake
b. Frog Lake
c. Batoche
d. Red River
e. Assiniboia
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Short Answer
41. What arguments did the Thirteen Colonists present to persuade the French Canadians to support them against
England?
42. What was Governor Parr’s great accomplishment for the loyalist immigrants?
43. What attitudes towards America did the Family Compact develop from the War of 1812?
44. Outline the economic developments in the colonies from 1815 to 1850.
45. What was the land issue in Lower Canada that outraged reformers and habitants in the 1820s?
46. Who were the people at the bottom of the social scale in 19th century Canada?
47. Why was the reform movement of Canada East considered a conservative, rather than radical, movement in the
1840s?
48. Explain what is meant by the term “responsible government.”
49. Why were the Métis upset by the sale of Rupert’s Land?
50. Why did the Aboriginal Peoples sign the one-sided treaties with the Canadian government after Confederation?
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