Quiz #1

Question 1

Who are anglophones? What was their views on Canadian politics?

Answer 1

• Anglophones are English speaking Canadians.
• They were proud of British heritage, and wanted to maintain strong ties to Britain.

Question 2

Who are francophones? What was their views on Canadian politics?

Answer 2

• Francophones are French speaking Canadians.
• They wanted fewer ties to Britain and more focus on Canadian nationalism (pride in one’s country).

Question 3

What is reciprocity?

Answer 3

The free trade between countries (no tariffs).

Question 4

For what three reasons was Canada created?

Answer 4

• To protect against the United States.
• To save the United Kingdom money.
• For economic growth and political stability for the British colonies in Canada.

Question 5

Who were predominately in Canada? What were their religions?

Answer 5

• The British (Protestant).
• French (Roman Catholic).
• Metis (Roman Catholic).
• Native Canadians (Nature and Roman Catholic).

Question 6

What were the four original colonies of 1867?

Answer 6

1. Ontario.
2. Quebec.
3. New Brunswick.
4. Nova Scotia.

Question 7

When was the transcontinental railroad built?

Answer 7

Between 1881 and 1885.

Question 8

Why was it built? How did it affect the government? How was it funded?

Answer 8

• It was a condition for B.C. to join Confederation.
• It put the central government into debt.
• Macdonald took bribes for railroad building contracts which forced him to resign as Prime Minister. This was known as the Pacific Scandal.

Question 9

What’s the National Policy?

Answer 9

• A policy for developing Canada that contained three proposals:
  1. A protective tariff to protect Canadian manufacturers (meaning a tax added to the price of U.S. goods).
  2. The completion of the national railway to move settlers and manufactured goods to the West and move wheat to the east.
  3. Large scale settlement of the West to serve as Canada’s bread-basket and to provide markets for industries of Central Canada.

Question 10

How was racism present in Canada?

Answer 10

• All immigrants were sometimes treated poorly, but non English-speaking ones had it worse.
• The government officially blocked Black immigrants from settling out west.
• Asian immigrants began as $200 a head to come in and increased to have a $500 head tax placed on them to enter Canada.
• Race riots sometimes broke out in attempts to “keep Canada white”.

Question 11

What was the voting rights involving women in Canada? Did it change?

Answer 11

• Women could not vote in Canada until women’s groups lobbied for the right to.

Question 12

What’s the BNA Act?

Answer 12

The BNA Act united the three separate territories into a single dominion. These were:
* Canada.
* Nova Scotia.
* New Brunswick.

Question 13

What’s the Naval Service Bill? Why was it established? What were people’s reactions to it?

Answer 13

• Britain and Germany were involved in a naval arms race and Canada was expected to contribute financially.
• Laurier’s compromise was to introduce the Naval Service Bill in 1910, in which Canada did not contribute to Britain but instead created its own navy.
• This annoyed both English and French-speaking Canadians.