Prairie Test Key Terms - Test MONDAY

Last battle of NW Rebellion where Riel gets arrested BATOCHE	Riel charged with this – betraying his country TREASON
Riel’s lawyers wanted him to plead not guilty on terms of insanity INSANE	Jury and judge wanted to grant Riel this after he was found guilty; Gov’t refused and hung him CLEMENCY
Create province of Manitoba; French and English official language; 2 education systems; land set aside for the Métis MANITOBA TEST	Piece of paper similar to money; worth $160 or a piece of land; caused Métis to leave because... SCRIP
Métis president in St. Laurent; led battles during NW Rebellion GABRIEL DUMONT	Bison overhunted; led to the Laws of St. Laurent restricting hunting EXTINCTION
Almost pure alcohol traded by the whisky traders to First Nations FIREWATER	Canadian gov’t negotiated with Aboriginals for land titles for Canadian and European settlement ABORIGINAL TREATIES
Conservative leader; developed the National Policy; pushed for the building of the CPR JOHN A. MACDONALD	Financed first part of the railway; established the CPR company which went bankrupt, partly due to the Scandal SIR HUGH ALLAN
Liberal leader; against the building of the railway; frustrated B.C. with his “do-nothing” attitude ALEXANDER MACKENZIE	Changed the CPR route to the south to counter competitors, land speculators, and farm the prairies NEW CPR (CHANGES MADE BY SYNDICATE)
A.B. Rogers searched two years between 1881-82; found passage through the Selkirk Mountains ROGER’S PASS	Led the building of the CPR in the Prairies; highly efficient worker WILLIAM VAN HORNE
Hired in B.C. by Onderdonk to work in the dangerous mountainous passages; terrible conditions and wages CHINESE WORKERS	1885 uprising (or resistance) led by Louis Riel against the Canadian gov’t for the rights of the Métis NORTHWEST REBELLION
Donald Smith, one of the railway architects, drove this in at Craigellechie in the B.C. mountains on Nov. 7, 1885 LAST SPIKE	Father of Manitoba; led the NW Rebellion, Hero or rogue? LOUIS RIEL
Although the Cree joined forces with the Métis in the NW Rebellion; him and his Blackfoot tribe did not because he was a pragmatist POUNDMAKER	Peaceful Cree leader involved in some of the skirmishes during the NW Rebellion; later convicted of treason LOUIS RIEL
1884, Riel and a European farmer drew this up to address grievances of the Métis and form the basis of a new province in the NW METIS BILL OF RIGHTS	First clash between NWMP and the Métis – start of the NW Rebellion DUCK LAKE

Practice Test M/C Answers

1. A
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. B
13. C
14. A
15. C
16. D
17. B
18. D
19. C
20. A
21. B
22. A
23. D
24. B
25. B
26. D
27. B
28. D
29. C
30. C
31. A