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TeamSpence Canada
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Unlike the U.S, Canada dind not experience | A war for independence |
| Canada remained a British cology until | 1867 |
| Canada gained indepedence through | A sereis of afreements with Britian on general principls of autonomy |
| Canadians were ethnically _____________ however a significant minority were descendatns of ________________. | English; French |
| The two groups agreed to remain as one country because | They feared that the United States would take over. |
| The British permitted the provinces to govern their own internal affairs by expanding home rule because | The Birtish imperial governors of Canada did not want a repeat of the American Revolution |
| The act joined Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick together as the Dominion of Canada in 1867 | The British North America Act |
| Canada was designed to be a | Federalist System, with powers shared by the central government and its subunits |
| Canada became a | Parliamentary System with a prime minister from parliament,rather than a presidential system. |
| Like the U.S after indpendece was established Canada moved to | expand its land claims to the Pacific Ocean |
| What encouraged immirgation from eastern Europe and Asia? | The National Policy |
| This infrastructure encouraged settlement in the interior lands | The transcontinental railroad that stretched from sea to sea. |
| Canada's experience in a booming agricultureal, mineral, and industrial production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a result of | National Policy |
| Canadian economic expansion took place on the foundation of rapidly increasing wheat production and the extraction of rich mineral resources, including gold silver, copper, nickel, and abestos due to | Population growth |
| Canada became the Dominion of Canada on | July 1st 1867 |
| The Parliment is composeed of | the House of Commons and Senate |
| The first to colonize Canada were the | French |
| This agreement allowed the French inhabitants of Canada to keep their religion and status only leaving them with two territories. | The Treaty of Paris |
| Canada is a ___________ of Great Britain. | Commonwealth |