In 1792, some black Nova Scotians who had been given poor land left to found which city?
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Kingston, Jamaica
Answer: Freetown, Sierra Leone
About 3,000 black Loyalists, both freedmen and slaves, came north looking for a better life. Some black Nova Scotians were given poor land, so in 1792 they moved to West Africa and helped found Freetown, Sierra Leone, a new British colony for freed slaves.
Learn more: The Loyalists and the beginnings of democracy
- In 1776 the 13 British colonies south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States.
- More than 40,000 Loyalists, people loyal to the Crown, fled the American Revolution and settled in Nova Scotia and Quebec.
- Joseph Brant led thousands of Loyalist Mohawks into Canada.
- Loyalists had Dutch, German, British, Scandinavian, Aboriginal and other origins, and many religions: Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Jewish, Quaker and Catholic.
- About 3,000 black Loyalists, freedmen and slaves, came north for a better life. In 1792 some black Nova Scotians, given poor land, left to found Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa).
- Sir Guy Carleton supervised the Loyalist migration to Nova Scotia and Quebec in 1782–83.
- First elected representative assemblies: Halifax, Nova Scotia (1758); Prince Edward Island (1773); New Brunswick (1785).
- The Constitutional Act of 1791 split the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario: mainly Loyalist, Protestant, English-speaking) and Lower Canada (later Quebec: mainly Catholic, French-speaking).
- The 1791 Act gave the Canadas, for the first time, legislative assemblies elected by the people.
- The name Canada became official in 1791 and has been used ever since.
- The Atlantic colonies and the two Canadas together were called British North America.