chapter4 测试题

and it became known as the North West Territories. They planned to sell pieces of the land to settlers to build their homes on.

2. The HBC had owned the vast territory known as _________.The

only people that lived there were aboriginal and fur traders. This land also include the _____________ around Fort Garry. The people living here were unhappy being under the HBC rule, and wanted to become a part of ___________.

3. The Europeans did not understand their customs and also planned

to build a _____________________ country.

4. The Metis were ready to fight and turned to_____________ 5. They

created their own gov’t there called the

_____________________, to help the citizens of this area deal with the Canadian Gov’t.

6. Rupert’s land : Lands ______by the Husdon’s Bay Company

which stretched over much of what is today the Northwest Territories, western _______and Quebec.

H: By purchasing this land, Canada now had vast territories to fill up with__________.

7. Red River settlement: Settlement _________in 1811 by Lord

___________around the present city of __________

H: The settlers _______the way they were ruled by _____and

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preferred to be part of Canada

8. North-west Territories：Name given to the lands __________to

Canada from the Husdon’s Bay Company in 1869.

H: These lands secured the Prairies for Canada and___________ the Americans from moving onto them or making a similar deal with the HBC

9. Metis: People of mixed aboriginal and European _________.

H: The metis formed the _________of the_______ trade in the West by acting as agents between aboriginal peoples and Europeans

10. Red river rebellion: Uprising of the _______on the Red river

settlement after Canada bought Rupert’s land and sent in surveyors without ________the metis.

H: Led to the ____________rights and to the creation of the province of Manitoba

11. National Committee of the Metis：A committee, formed by

_______, whose purpose was to ________Metis rights. H: Advised and assisted Riel in governing the settlement before it joined the confederation

12. Provisional government：Government set up by Riel to replace the

HBC rule of the Red River settlement.

H: This government spoke for the area in negotiations with ________.

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13. Metis Bill of Rights: A list of demands for_________

Confederation prepared by the Metis and presented to the Canadian ___________. H: Those demand were considered _________by Ottawa until the Thomas Scott affair occurred

14. Most people supported Riel’s government except for Canadians

who came from _________.

15. In jail Scott hit his_________, __________the metis by calling

them cowards, threatened to _________Riel, and spoke against the Catholic

16. BC was sparsely ___________other than a few major communities

and its economy was___________.

17. There were three mains ________for BC’s future.

1> a small group wanted BC to remain a crown colony with a governor and ____________ government

2> another group BC should_________ the US. 3>some people believed BC should join the Dominnion of Canada

3>some people believed BC should join the _________of Canada

18. The British government ___________BC joining the Dominion 19. May 10___________, _________went to Ottawa to discuss terms

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of joining confederation with Canada.

20. there are 3 reasons to build a railway. 1) Join _________to Canada.

2)Encouragement western expansion and __________.

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3) bring farm_________ from the farms in the west, to the markets in the East

21. Pacific Railway Company led by _____________.

22. Macdonald was forced to resign because of _____________. 23. Liberals, Mackenzie King came to___________, but were not

enthusiastic about spending much money on ________________.

24. national poicy include several points as follows: 1) keep cheaper

U.S. __________out of Canada. 2)encourage Canadians to buy__________ at home. 3) Fill the ___________with settlers who will farm 4) send their farm products to markets in the _________. 5) Make an east-west___________ railway to do so.

25. The National Policy would benefit: 1) __________who could ship

their products east. 2) ________companies who could now ship their products to western Canada. 3) Canadian owned businesses who would now have__________ competition. 4) Western settlement in Canada.

26. Opposition to the National Policy: 1) Many of the western

provinces produced the ________goods, creating more competition between them. 2) Atlantic provinces would have to send their products to the far_________. 3) Much ________to trade with their southern neighbors, the U.S.

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27. The government gave the Canadian Pacific Railway Company a

20 year__________.

28. 3040km needed to be built to ________it to British Columbia. 29. Manitoba Act: An act established Manitoba as Canada’s

__________ province. H: The entry of MB into Confederation as Canada’s fifth province confirmed the agreement worked out by Riel’s Provisional Gov’t

30. Pacific Railway Company: A group formed to build a

transcontinental _______. H: The plan collapsed when it was ___________ that this group had given large amounts of money to Macdonald’s government

31. National Policy: Sir John A. Macdonald’s plan to solve the

country’s _________ problems. H: The national Policy __________ east-west trade, the ________ of the prairies, and the building of transcontinental___________.

32. Canadian Pacific Railway Company: The company formed in

1880 to build the transcontinental railway. H: Under this company the railway was successfully

33. Monopoly: The government gives complete control of a particular

marked to a company so that there is no __________ . H: This meant that Canadian pacific would have control of all east-west rail traffic in the southern part of the prairies for ___________ years.

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