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HBC + NWC #2
Question | Answer |
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"Stay By The Bay" Policy | HBC |
strict standard of trade | HBC |
salaried employees with a strict company hiearchy (London Partners shared profit) | HBC |
encouraged celibacy instead of marriage with natives | HBC |
refused trade with alcohol | HBC |
NWC | group of English merchants who seized fur trade; Montrealers |
NWC | 1783- merged with several other companies |
NWC | Set up trading posts in interior |
NWC | major trade depot at Fort William |
NWC | moved inland to be closer to traders |
NWC | business structure based on partnerships |
NWC | less rigid policy |
NWC | had to condend with ice free season on lakes and rivers |
When the Pemmican Proclamation occurred | 1816 |
Miles Mcdonnell | issued the Pemmican Proclamation |
Sent Robert Semple to get pemmican | Miles Mcdonnell |
Leader of the Battle of 7 Oaks | Cuthbert Grant |
"warden of the plains" | looks after bison hunt |
Cuthbert Grants and Robert Semple were ______ | Problems |
French/ Catholics | The Orange Order disliked these people |
Three trading forts | Fort Garry, Fort Pembina, Fort Gibraltar |
Fort Garry | HBC |
Fort Pembina | HBC |
Fort Gibraltar | NWC |
Louis Riel | Seized Fort Garry because of the firearms and he wanted to hold Thomas Scott + John Scultz there |
Two choices of Scottish tenant farmers | -move to industrialized cities -move to British North America (BNA) |
How Lork Selkirk proposed to solve the crisis within Hudson's Bay/ problems associated with crofters #1 | Used his fortunate to provide agricultural land/colonies for the crofter #1 |
How Lork Selkirk proposed to solve the crisis within Hudson's Bay/ problems associated with crofters #2 | Established settlements in the Maritimes & Upper Canada in 1810 |
Two policies Miles M. issued to protect new colonists | -Pemmicam Proclamation -ordered NWC employees to vacate their posts by Red River Valley in 6 months |
Pemmican War: Cuthbert G. and ____ of his men rode out to the Metis. The Metis split in ___ groups. ___ of Semple's men were killed within ____ minutes. This battle later called ____. | 28, 2, 20, 15, Battle of 7 Oaks |
Which two leaders supported the Metis/NWC? | Cuthbert Grant, Duncan Cameron |
Which three leaders supported the Selkirk Settlers? | Miles Macdonnell, Colin Robertson, Robert Semple |
1825 | the year NWC sold their shares to HBC |
Why _____ _____ was known as the Little Emperor | -George Simpson; Autocratic manner and small stature |
Entirely of wood, made with simple hand tools, "Northwest Fiddle", travelled side by side | Red River Cart |
Le commerce est libre! Viva la liberte! | "Business is open! Long live freedom!" |
Bannock | flatbread |
Flogged | whipped with a whip for punishment |
Country born | Scottish or English + Native ancestry |
Free trade trail | 1849 |
Simpson and his wife left for ___ in _____ | England, 1832 |
Character Book | where faults of HBC employees were recorded |
November 1869 | Fort Garry Seized by Riel |
William MacDougall | Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Red River area |
Ontario government puts _____ out for ____'s capture | bounty, Riel |
6 things increased tension in Red River area | crop failure, protestants, economic problems, bison disappearing, cash strapped HBC lost interest in area, SCultz championed Canadian interests, addt'ly; Metis never made legal claim to their land |
Why HBC wanted to relinquish control of Rupert's Land | -difficult to control vast territory -more settlers moving into Northwest |
November 1869; plus they needed ____ to acquire it | Canadian Government controlled Rupert's Land -Louis Riel |
Purpose/Proposals of Riel's Provisional Government (2) | -maintain order, negotiate agreements about Manitoba -creation of Manitoba where Metis reps could go to Ottawa; list of rights were formed |
Provisional Government | temporary gov't |
Metis National Committee (MNC) | Committee formed by Riel and other Metis to represent Metis interests |
Dr. John Scultz (2) | -one of 1st immigrants to arrive in 1860 -wanted business, not medicinal practice |
NorWester | Only newspaper in the settlement |
Metis List of Rights agreed to by ____ | Red River Convention |
When and where were the Metis List of Rights adopted? | -In Fort Garry (Dec.1, 1869) |
Manitoba ended confederation on | May 2, 1870 |
Two major concessions for Metis people | -1.4 million acres for children -Metis Rights assured by Manitoba Act |
What happened to Riel and members of provisional government? | Riel tried fleeing from Winnipeg because he was scared of dying. Members of the provisional government who stayed were granted amnesty, but Riel wasn't. |