History Crossword

3. The political union of British North American colonies.
5. A situation in which government decisions are prevented by opposing sides refusing to compromise.
8. A battle involving Metis people from Red River in the struggle for control of the fur trade between the Hudsons Bay Company and North West Company.
11. The war in which a group of southern states tried to secede from the United States.
12. A British scientific exploration of Rupert's Land to determine the regions suitability for settlement.
13. A system of democratic government in which representation in the legislature is distributed according to population.
14. a Metis language combining French, Cree , English and Ojibwe/Saulteaux.
15. A canadian exploration of what is today southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan that concluded the area was suitable for farming.
16. Two-wheeled carts drawn by oxen or horses and were developed in the Red River district.

1. Dried buffalo meat mixed with fat and sometimes berries.
2. A popular belief held among Americans in the nineteenth century that their country had a right to control North America.
4. An order by Governor Miles Macdonnell that banned the export of pemmican from Red River.
6. a group of Irish immigrants in North America dedicated to the freedom of Ireland from British Control.
7. Act of the parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.
9. A series of conflicts between gold miners and members of the Nlaka'pamux Nation whose territory the gold seekers were mining.
10. residents of the Thirteen colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American War of Independance.