Unit 3

Activity

1. Download the lesson summary, Conflict at Red River.
   
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
   
• You will then be able to view the Conflict at Red River worksheet.


3. As you read the assigned textbook pages in this lesson, you will be asked to stop and answer questions about important events.
   
   
   

Read




Read pages 177 to 179 in your textbook.


• Answer the questions on your lesson summary.


Read pages 180 to 184 in your textbook.


• These pages explain the Red River Resistance of 1869 following the purchase of Rupert’s Land.
  
  
• Answer the questions on your lesson summary.


4. Read the information in Figure 8.3 (below).


5. In your lesson summary, explain what the Métis Provisional Government’s “Bill of Rights” was.


6. Various groups and individuals in the Red River region had differing perspectives on the Métis resistance to becoming part of Canada.
   
   Answer the following question in your lesson summary.
• What were the perspectives of the Anglophones and the Francophone?

Submit your completed Conflict at Red River worksheet on the next page.