Canadian Confederation and Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. The alliance formed to help make Confederation happen.
  2. 3. The direction many Canadians moved during expansion.
  3. 5. Canada's first Prime Minister.
  4. 6. When politicians cannot agree and government gets stuck.
  5. 7. Clue
  6. 10. John A. Macdonald's political party.
  7. 11. The American belief that the U.S. should expand across North America.
  8. 12. A region with its own government in Canada.
  9. 13. The country created in 1867.
  10. 15. The flat grasslands where many settlers farmed.
  11. 18. Leader of the Clear Grits and supporter of Rep by Pop.
  12. 20. The transportation system promised to B.C. to encourage it to join Canada.
  13. 21. The western province that joined Confederation in 1871.
  14. 22. Attacks from Irish-American groups that worried the colonies.
  15. 23. The growth of Canada westward.
  16. 24. The main job of many settlers in the Prairies.
Down
  1. 1. The province created after the Red River Resistance.
  2. 4. A political trick used by Macdonald's government.
  3. 8. A region controlled more directly by the federal government.
  4. 9. The joining of colonies to create Canada in 1867.
  5. 14. George Brown's political group.
  6. 16. A time when many people moved west hoping to find gold.
  7. 17. A person who moves to a new area to live.
  8. 19. People moving to Canada from another country.