Chapter 7

Question 1

Emigrant

Answer 1

A person who leaves their native country to establish a home in citizenship in another country

Question 2

Demographic Change

Answer 2

Change in the characteristics of a population

Question 3

Unemployment

Answer 3

Having no work

Question 4

Famine

Answer 4

A shortage of food leading to starvation for many people

Question 5

Cholera

Answer 5

A contagious disease that causes intestinal problems and dehydration

Question 6

Quarantine

Answer 6

A place where people with a contagious disease are required to stay, to separate them from healthy people and to prevent the spread of the disease

Question 7

Reformer

Answer 7

Someone who seeks to change established rules and arrangements in society

Question 8

Colonial government

Answer 8

A government established in the colony and controlled by an imperial power such as Britain

Question 9

Advise

Answer 9

To give advice

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

A system of government in which citizens elect those who rule them

Question 11

Republic

Answer 11

A system of government that does not have a monarch

Question 12

Tryranny of the majority

Answer 12

In a Tryranny, one person or group old power in a society and uses their power for their own interests

Question 13

Epidemic

Answer 13

The infection of a large population by a disease

Question 14

Crop failure

Answer 14

Damage or limitation of food crops because of drought insect damage or some other natural cause

Question 15

Immigrant

Answer 15

A person intending to establish a home and citizenship in a country that is not their native country

Question 16

Outspoken

Answer 16

Expressing an opinion clearly and directly

Question 17

Boycott

Answer 17

To refuse something as a way to create pressure or change

Question 18

Arms

Answer 18

Weapons

Question 19

Insurrection

Answer 19

An attempt to overthrow an established government

Question 20

Rebellion

Answer 20

A challenge to the authority of a recognized government

Question 21

Amnesty

Answer 21

A general pardon

Question 22

Royal commission

Answer 22

And official investigation established by the government

Question 23

Assimilate

Answer 23

To become part of a different cultural group

Question 24

Coalition

Answer 24

In alliance among different groups

Question 25

Amnesty

Answer 25

A pardon

Question 26

Self-government

Answer 26

Government that does not answer to an imperial power

Question 27

Demographics

Answer 27

Data about the characteristics of a population such as number, origin, and age

Question 28

Anglophone

Answer 28

A person whose first language is English

Question 29

Francophone

Answer 29

A person whose first language is French

Question 30

Oppression

Answer 30

Unjust or unfair use a power

Question 31

Conquest

Answer 31

The British takeover of new France in 1763, under which New France became the British colony of Quebec

Question 32

Who migrated to Canada?

Answer 32

People from Britain and Ireland

Question 33

Why did the British come to Canada?

Answer 33

Economic Reasons:
Many people lost their jobs in the Industrial Revolution
There was a lot of poverty and unemployment in Britain
A famine hit Ireland

Question 34

What caused the bad conditions in Britain

Answer 34

The Napoleonic Wars between Britain and France
The Industrial Revolution
Economic Slow-Down
Famine in Ireland

Question 35

Where did majority of the emigrants that came to Canada settle

Answer 35

Upper Canada