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- Lieutenant-Governor
- Head of government in Quebec
- Quebec Act
- Signed in 1774, intended to reorganize the way these British territories were governed
- Republican
- Form of government opposing the monarchy
- Industrial Revolution
- Change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Quebec was captured after this battle
- American Revolution
- British settlers who rebelled against England in the Thirteen Colonies
- Halifax
- the main British naval port in the West Atlantic in1749
- Responsible government
- A system which requires that government ministers should be elected members of the legislative assembly, not appointed by the governor
- Lord Durham
- He was sent to investigate the causes of the rebellions and to propose changes.
- Great Famine
- Result of the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840's
- William Lyon Mackenzie
- Leader of the reformers in Upper Canada.
- Louis-Joseph Papineau
- Leader of the French in the assembly in Lower Canada
- Thirteen Colonies
- British colonies to the south of Quebec
- Mississippi River
- river system in the mid part of United States.
- Great Migration
- Period of immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850.
- Loyalists American
- colonists who remained loyal to the British king
- Family Compact
- Wealthy ruling group who controlled Upper Canada
- Act of Union
- This act united Upper and Lower Canada into one colony
- Royal Proclamation
- Signed in 1763. meant to protect Natives from uncontrolled white settlements
- Treaty of Paris
- This treaty ended the Seven Years War
- Chateau Clique
- Wealthy ruling group who controlled Lower Canada