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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 10

Loyalists & the War of 1812

Conflict and a changing colony

What your child practises

Loyalist settlement, the causes, key people and outcome of the War of 1812 (including the roles of First Nations allies and the Treaty of Ghent), and growth after the war: canals, the fur trade companies and the Red River.

Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: 7.1 · Loyalist settlement and the War of 1812

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Tecumseh, a Shawnee leader, worked to…

    • bring settlers to the Great Lakes
    • unite Nations to defend Indigenous homelands against American expansion
    • found a British colony
    • sell land to the United States
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    unite Nations to defend Indigenous homelands against American expansion

    Hint: He was killed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813.

  2. Question 2

    At the Battle of Châteauguay in 1813, a smaller force of mostly Canadian militia, Mohawk warriors and British regulars…

    • captured Washington
    • surrendered at once
    • turned back a larger American army
    • burned York
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    turned back a larger American army

    Hint: Charles de Salaberry led the defence.

  3. Question 3

    The Welland Canal (1829) allowed ships to…

    • cross the Rocky Mountains
    • travel from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico
    • bypass Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie
    • reach the Pacific Ocean
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    bypass Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie

    Hint: Locks lift ships up and down the Niagara Escarpment.

  4. Question 4

    In what year was the Treaty of Ghent signed?

    • 1837
    • 1814
    • 1763
    • 1812
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    1814

    Hint: It was signed in December 1814.

  5. Question 5

    At Seven Oaks in 1816, conflict broke out at the Red River between…

    • British and American soldiers
    • Loyalists and Acadians
    • French and British navies
    • Métis, allied with the North West Company, and settlers backed by the Hudson's Bay Company
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    Métis, allied with the North West Company, and settlers backed by the Hudson's Bay Company

    Hint: The Red River settlement was disputed ground in a competition over trade and land.

  6. Question 6

    Major-General Isaac Brock was killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights in…

    • 1759
    • 1867
    • 1812
    • 1837
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    1812

    Hint: The battle was fought in October 1812 near Niagara.

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