MID TERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE

I reviewed the mid term exam and the learning outcomes addressed by the Alberta Program of Studies. I have created some questions that you should know the answers to, and also a list of important vocabulary words. I have also included the names of people, places and events that are important to know about for your exam on Thursday. Good luck studying!

1. Who were the first peoples in North America?
2. What were the two main countries that fought over North America? Were the wars only in North America?
3. Why did Europeans want to expand into the "New World"?
4. Are all First Nations Cultures the same?
5. What kind of relationship did Samuel de Champlain have with First Nations peoples?
6. Who were the key players in the fur trade?
7. Why did so many First Nations people die after Europeans arrived?
8. Did Europeans depend on First Nations for anything?
9. Why was Hudson's Bay a suitable location for trading posts?
10. Who built Halifax? When and why did they build it?
11. What was the Acadian deportation, also called the expulsion of the Acadians?
12. What was the Constitutional Act of 1791? What did it do?
13. When was the War of 1812 (just joking)...why did the Americans invade? What was the outcome of this war? What Treaty ended it? Were First Nations people involved?
    
14. Why were there rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada between 1837-1838? Who led these Rebellions and what was the British Governments response?
    
15. What was the Act of Union of 1841? What did it unite? What was the new colony called?
16. When/What/Where were the conferences in 1864 held that discussed Confederation?
17. What reasons or factors led the colonies to think about Confederation?
18. What colonies originally joined in Confederation? What Provinces were formed from Confederation?
    

Important events, places and people to know about (think who, what, when, where, why, how):
Samuel de Champlain
The Wendot (Huron)
The Haudenosaunee (The Iroqois)
The Fur Trade
Ruperts Land
New France
The 13 Colonies
The North West Company
The Hudson's Bay Company
The Acadians
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
The Treaty of Paris
The Royal Proclamation
The Quebec Act
The War of 1812
Tecumseh
The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences
Joseph Howe
Sir John A. Macdonald

Vocabulary to know (practice by defining these words and testing yourself with a partner or family member):
Metis
treaty
culture
Confederation
federal
migration
representation by population
empire
responsible government
alliance
refugees
sovereignty
ethnocentric
mercantilism
colony
stereotype
bi-cultural
consensus