ANTICIPATORY SET: BUILDING A NATION

Answer the following questions true or false. If they are false, write the
correction in the space provided.

1. There were six original provinces in True or False

Canada.
There were actually four original provinces.
_________________________________________
True or False
2. Canada becoming a nation was a
peaceful
1887 affair.
had many rebellions making it not much a
_________________________________________
peaceful affair.
True or False

3. John A. Macdonald was Canadas first

Prime Minister.
_________________________________________
True or False
4. We still celebrate the British North
America Act.
_________________________________________ True or False

5. Champagne played a large role in

Canada becoming a nation.
_________________________________________ True or False
6. The Underground Railway was a
transportation system for moving people True or False
secretly from the USA to Canada under
theUnderground
The St. Lawrence River.
Railway wasnt actually
underground.
_________________________________________

7. Coffin ships transported living people, in True or False

horrible conditions, from Ireland to
Canada.
_________________________________________
True or False

8. A leader of a rebellion in Canada East

escaped to the US dressed as a woman. True or False
_________________________________________
They actually were in Canada West.

9. Ottawa has always been the capital of

Canada.
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Montreal was actually the capital at one point.

10. The USA was a major threat to Canada

becoming Canada.
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MAKE A PREDICTION:
List major reasons why Canada was formed.