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16 Cards in this Set
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Who are the Founding Fathers of confederation? |
John A. Macdonald, George Brown, and George-Étienne Cartier |
Macdonald, Brown, and Étienne Cartier. |
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What are 3 points for George Brown? |
He was the lead supporter of representation by Population. He owned the Globe, Toronto's largest newspaper. He was one of Canada's Founding Fathers. |
Founding Father, By Population, The Globe. |
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What are 3 points for George-Étienne Cartier? |
He was one of the Founding Fathers of Canada. He was the main opposer of representation by Population. He was interested in protecting the rights of the canadien's. |
Founding Father, Opposer, Protecting rights. |
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What are 3 Points for John A. Macdonald? |
He was one of the Founding Fathers of Canada. He was the first Prime Minister of Canada. He was the main person who pushed for confederation. |
Founding Father, First, Pushed for Confederation. |
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What is George Brown's Political area, language, and Religion? |
Canada West, English, and Protestant |
West, Eng, Prote |
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What is John A. Macdonald's Political area, language, and Religion? |
Canada West, English, Anglican/Christian |
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What is George-Étienne Cartier Political area, language, and Religion? |
Canada East, French, and Roman Catholic |
East, Fren, Roman |
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What are the three conferences that led to confederation? |
Charlottetown, Quebec, and London Conferences |
Que, Charlotte, Lon |
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What are 2 points for the Charlotte town Conference? |
The Maritime colonies held the conference to see if they were going to join the confederation, but British Columbia and Newfoundland was not invited. The Maritime colonies agreed to join the Confederation. |
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What are 2 Points for the Quebec Conference? |
They meet there to decide the details about how the power would be shared. The delegates finally voted in favor of the Quebec Resolutions. |
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What are 2 points for the London Conference? |
This conference was about the future of the colonies and if they would join in Confederation. In the end, Canada became Britain's first "Self-governing Dominion", but still retained the monarchy and its membership in the British Empire. |
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What are 2 points for economic factors that drew Canada together for Confederation? |
Britain began to switch to the system of free trade and so it hurt the colonies greatly, because all imported goods from Britain had a much lowered cost to the consumers. |
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What are 2 points for Political factors that drew Canada together for Confederation? |
The issue about representation by Population was starting to tear Canada East and Canada West apart. The issue would be mostly resolved if both were to join into confederation. |
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What are 2 points for Transportation factors that drew Canada together for Confederation? |
The Grand Trunk Railway that extended from Toronto to Montreal wasn't getting that much traffic and therefore not a lot of money. If it extends from Montreal to Maritimes, they thought that it would increase the amount of traffic, more stuff would be able to get transported and they would get more money from the Grand Trunk Railway. |
Grand Trunk Railway, Not enough money. |
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What are 2 points for Defense factors that drew Canada together for Confederation? |
The Fenians invaded BNA Multiple times and so that spurred up some fear that the Fenians may actually have a successful invasion. Some Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, Manifest Destiny means that America had the duty to annex all of North America and so the colonies therefore felt threatened. |
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What is the date of Confederation? |
July 1, 1867 |
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