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What is salmon?
This fish was important to the coast and plateau peoples.
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Who are the Vikings?
These Europeans were the first settlers in North America.
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What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
This company used to trade beaver pelts with the First Nations and is one of the oldest companies in the world.
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What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This proclamation prevented American settlers from farming in the Ohio River valley.
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Who are the Plains people?
These people, found in modern day Alberta and Saskatchewan, lived in tents covered with bison hides.
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What are igloos?
The Inuit made these lodgings out of snow.
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What is the Northwest Passage?
This fabled route leads to Asia.
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What is the beaver?
This animal's skin was of high value in Europe.
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What is the American Revolution?
The angry colonists rebelled against Britain in this famous conflict.
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Who are the Eastern Woodland people?
These peoples lived in long houses, and farmed corn and squash.
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What is matrilocal?
After a marriage occurs, the man moves in with the woman's extended family.
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Who is de Champlain?
This man is known for founding Quebec.
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Who are the voyageurs?
These strong men transported fur for fur trading companies.
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Who was Guy Carleton?
This man was Quebec's first governor, and was sympathetic to the French settlers.
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Who are the Plateau people?
These people dealt with the cold winters in the regions by digging houses into the ground.
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What are bison?
These beasts were sometimes killed by being run over the edge of a cliff.
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What is the 7 years war?
This war saw an end to French rule in Canada.
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What is the North West Company?
This company was rivals with the Hudson's Bay Company.
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What is the Stamp Act?
This tax on everyday goods was designed to help Britain pay for protecting the 13 colonies, and enraged the Americans.
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What is the potlatch?
The people of the Northwest Coast celebrated major milestones with this ceremony, in which vast amounts of wealth were given away.
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Who are the Iroquois?
This nation lived on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, and were enemies of the French.
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What is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham?
This battle was fought outside of Quebec City, and was over in only 15 minutes.
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Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
This explorer passed through the Peace River region in 1792.
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What is the Boston Tea Party?
This act of defiance by the American rebels involved dumping tea in the harbour.
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What is matrilineal?
In Iroquois tribes, the women owned the fields, because their society was _________________ in nature.
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