Practice for Ch. 7 Quiz

The four original colonies that joined together to form Confederation were Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Ontario.

• True
• False

John A. Macdonald was Canada's first prime minister.

• True
• False

A political deadlock occurs when there is a disagreement among equally powerful decision makers

• True
• False

The Maritime colonies feared they would lose their identities if they joined Confederation.

• True
• False

It was in Charlottetown that the British North American Act was written and adopted.

• True
• False

Unlike in many of Britain's colonies, the First Nations of British North America were consulted during the Confederation negotiations.

• True
• False

One of the main reasons that colonies decided to join Confederation was because it would help them economically.

• True
• False

Confederation is important because

• it established a central government
• it established bilingualism and biculturalism
• it provided people with a national identity
• all of the above

Many in the Maritime provinces did not want to join Confederation because they

• did not want to lose their independence
• felt canada should give their land to the First Nations
• knew their taxes would increase
• did not need a railway or money to build better roads

Confederation originally acknowledged Canada's two founding nations

• the British and the Americans
• the English and the French
• the English and the Americans
• the First Nations and the French