Review of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

Review Lesson

You have reached the end of Unit 3:  Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands region.   

Now, review what you have learned:

  • Review the charts, notes, graphic organizers, and worksheets you completed as you worked through the lessons in this unit.
  • Skim the chapter in the textbook, focusing on and asking yourself questions about important parts.
  • Review your Self-Check questions and answers.

    Review the vocabulary:

    Canadiens
    Iroquois Confederacy/Six Nations/Haudenosaunee
    Huron
    longhouse
    Algonquin
    Madeleine de Vercheres
    habitants
    filles du roi
    colony
    seigneurial system
    missionary
    Grey Nuns
    coureurs des bois
    voyageurs
    Seven Year War
    Royal Proclamation
    Quebec Act
    General Wolf
    General Montcalm
    Plains of Abraham
    George Washington
    coffin ships
    typhus
    potato blight
    Joseph Brant
    Underground Railroad
    Great Migration
    immigrants
    Mayor John Easton Mills
    locks
    megapolis
    urban

    Review the I Can statements for this unit:

    • Find the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands on a map of Canada and name the provinces in it
    • Tell about the geography, landforms, and bodies of water in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
    • Explain how landforms, bodies of water, and natural resources affect people’s lives in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
    • Explain the factors that determine climate in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands and how the climate affects the people’s lives
    • Explain how natural resources and the physical geography of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands determine the establishment of communities
    • Tell about Aboriginal cultures and ways of life in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
    • Tell about the coureurs des bois, voyageurs, habitants, and missionaries and their lives in New France
    • Provide information about the United Empire Loyalists in this region, including First Nations Loyalists, and how their presence contributed to Canadian diversity
    • Tell about the ways of life of immigrants from the British Isles during the Great Migration
    • Discuss changes in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands and the reasons for those changes
    • Understand how natural resources are used, exchanged, and conserved in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
    • Use historical resources to learn about the past

    If any of the “I Cans” are “I Can’ts” for you, go back and review the sources and activities or contact your teacher for help.

    When you are ready, complete Assessments 3 and 4 on the following pages.