A | B |
neutral | not taking sides |
artillery | large mounted guns |
sengtery | soldier assigned to guard duty |
Parliment | the lawmaking body of a country |
Legislative | lawmaking |
canyon | a valley with steep sides cut by a river |
crest | the highest point |
prime minister | head of govenment in a parliment system |
negotiation | process of solving a problem acceptable to all sides |
transcontinental | stretcing across the continent |
homesteaders | people buying land in the wilderness to begin farms in unsettled areas |
representative | someone speaking and acting for another person |
invade | to enter or conquer |
loyalist | people who disapprove of revolution and remain loyal to Great Brittain |
Quebec Act | pleased the French angered southern colonists |
First Continental Congress | 1774 American colonists discussed their complaints to Brittish Rule |
Quebec and Nova Scotia | refused to send representitives to the First Continental Congress |
Boundary | Revoluntionary War set the boundary between Canada and USA |
War of 1812 | USA vs Great Brittian. USA invaded Canada and burned Toronto! |