Name: Group: 406- Date: P&S: British Regime/Rule Quick Questions for Quiz Use these Quick Questions to help you direct your studying for the upcoming quiz for Population & Settlement. Answer the questions below using your class notes, the class PowerPoints and the Board Work questions (Studying the class notes/powerpoints and Board Work questions are still important) Explain the Seven Year War and the Conquest. What was it? Who won? What treaty was signed at the end? What did the French get to keep? What did the British keep? What was the name of the Constitution declared by the king of England in 1763? What was the goal of this Proclamation? What was the name of the territory where all the French Canadiens lived after 1763? Which language group was the majority in the Province of Quebec in 1763? History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 1
What strategy did the British use to try and assimilate the French Canadiens in the province of Quebec? Where did the British get immigrants from during the British Regime? Name 3 places. How did immigration from these places change the demography of the province of Quebec in the late Seventeen hundreds? Name the group of immigrants that arrived in the province of Quebec during and after the American Revolution? Why did these immigrants choose to move to the province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland? History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 2
Were the Loyalists happy with the way the province of Quebec was run? What did they demand from the British government? How did the British government split up the territory of the Province of Quebec in 1791? What was the name of the act that split up the Province of Quebec in 1791? Describe the demography Lower Canada after 1791. Did the British government continue to push British immigration to Lower Canada after 1791? If so explain why? Why did people from the British Isles leave their homeland and move to places like Upper and Lower Canada? Provide two main reasons. History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 3
Why were British immigrants not always welcome in Upper and Lower Canada? Provide 2 main reasons. Were British immigrants always in good health when they arrived in Upper and Lower Canada? If not why was this a concern for the general public? How did the government in the colonies handle unhealthy immigrants? What are the main population growth factors during the early-mid 1800s for: Upper Canada/ Canada West Lower Canada/ Canada East How does the British immigration in the mid-1800s change the demography of Montreal? History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 4
How does the British immigration change the distribution of the population between Upper Canada/ Canada West and Lower Canada/ Canada East How did the British government use a private company called the British American Land Company to promote British immigration to Lower Canada/ Canada East? How did British immigration affect the territory of Lower Canada (think buildings and how land was divided)? From 1830-1930, why were French Canadiens emigrating from Lower Canada / Canada East and going to the United States. What were French Canadiens able to do when they arrived in the United States? How did this immigration affect the demography of Lower Canada / Canada East? History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 5
Name 4 different ways increased British immigration affected the first occupant population in Upper and Lower Canada. How did some First Occupant groups react? Describe the demography of Lower Canada/ Canada East around the time of the Act of Union (1840)? History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 6
Make sure you know: What the territory looked like in 1763, 1791 Where the Loyalists settled What the main linguistic group was in the Province of Quebec/Lower Canada throughout the British Regime What the Township system looked like Visual document: maps, charts, drawings (example: Grosse Ile) History & Citizenship Education Secondary IV 7