Quiz 1 - Short Answers Flashcards
- Examples of increasing tension between French and English Canadians 1759-1867.
Some examples of increasing tensions between the French and English Canadians from 1759-1867 are the English Canadians dedication to Great Britain (wanting to support them in wars/help out, give them money when they needed to build dreadnoughts etc), French Canadians being turned away from buying things at English Canadian stores because they can’t speak English at all or well, and assimilation (forcing them to change their beliefs, speaking French etc.)
- Be able to explain each of the following - Alaskan Border Dispute, Naval Question, Boer War - what it was and how each added to tensions between French and English Canadians.
The Naval Question was about Britain asking the colonies for money to fund the creation of more dreadnought ships. Laurier was faced with the dilemma of appeasing both the English and French Canadians. This added to the tensions between the French and English Canadians because the English Canadians believed that they should send funds to Britain because it showed how loyal they were to Britain. The French Canadians believed that they shouldn’t have to send funds to Britain because the dreadnoughts weren’t even going to be used to protect Canada. In the end, Laurier decided to pass a bill where they donated two ships.
- Who was and was not wanted in Canada when it opened its doors in 1900? Why? How were they stopped?
The people who weren’t wanted were the Chinese, Japanese, South-Asians and African Americans. The government did not want these groups of people to come to Canada because they didn’t “bring” anything to Canada and because they were so different from white Canadians. To stop Japanese immigrants they were charged a yearly quota. To stop Chinese and South-Asians they were charged with a $50.00 head tax per person and South-Asians had to go through the Continuous Passages Act which is where the ship they were on could not make stops during the journey to Canada. To stop African-Amercians from coming they started giving them medical examinations where they told them that someone in their family was sick so they couldn’t come into Canada because it would be risking everyone else’s lives.
- Push and Pull factors that lead people to come to Canada to settle.
Push factors that made people leave their homes to come to Canada were things like disease, unfair treatment from their homeland, famine and wars. Pull factors that made people want to come to Canada were new opportunities, freedom from slavery and getting your own plot of land to live and farm on.
- Positives and negatives of being a homesteader out west.
Positives of being a homesteader out west were that the cost to buy a plot of land was pretty cheap (roughly $10 for 160 acres of land) and the negatives were that conditions were pretty bad and you could go a little crazy from being alone and barely having any neighbours surrounding you.
- Canadian treatment of First Nations peoples.
Some issues that Indigenous peoples in Canada faced were being forced off of the land they lived on and forced to live on reserves, enforced farming, the Indian Act, residential schools, and assimilation (forcing them to leave their culture behind).
- What are the motivations behind colonization and how was this long term cause of WWI?
The reason that countries colonize is so they can gain control of other countries and so that they can access the resources found there. Imperialism is a long term cause of WWI because imperialism is that act of one nation having control over another country or region. Germany wanted more control over other countries, which is imperialism.
- What were the long term causes of WWI and how did each help to push Europe into war?
The long term causes of WWI were militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism (a.k.a MAIN). All four of these causes pushed Europe into war because they each have something to do with one’s country and having control and power and wanting to expand and grow.
- i) How did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand take place? (Explain the events of the day)
ii) How did the assassination lead Europe into a larger conflict? (Path to war)
i) The assaisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia on a Sunday morning. As the Archduke was arriving a bomb was thrown at his car and it injured his bodyguard. The Archduke wanted to visit his bodyguard in the hospital after the meeting. The driver made a wrong turn and he got out of the car. The assassin (Princip) shoots the Archduke and his wife at point blank aim. The Archduke is shot in the throat and his wife in her stomach. They both die on the way to the hospital.
ii) The assasination of the Archduke set off chain reactions which were not positive. The Black Hand (a terrorist group from Serbia) and Austria-Hungary had grown upset at each other. Serbia gave Austria-Hungary some terms they had to settle for so that Serbia wouldn’t declare war on them. Austria-Hungary accepted all but one of the terms and this made Serbia very upset. Serbia then declared war on Austria-Hungary which prompted a bunch of other European countries to also declare war.
- Explain why nationalism is a root cause of the war.
Nationalism is a root cause of WWI because countless countries were being greedy and were not negotiating with each other. They only had their countries interests at heart and it didn’t matter to them how many people they were hurting by fighting.
Was Sam Hughes a good Leader?
Sam Hughes was the Minister of Militia and Defense for the Canadian army and he fought in the Boer War. I do not think that he was a good leader for the Canadian military for a number of reasons. First off, he was a blatant racist towards the French Canadians telling them that they couldn’t speak their language and trying to tell them that what they believed in was wrong (they were Catholics, he was Anglaician). He trained the recruits for roughly 3 weeks and then decided that they were trained enough to fight over in Europe. Lastly he provided the men with gear that would not work very well in WWI all because his friends owned the companies that made the weapons he supplied them with
Explain the articles of the War Measures Act
The articles of the War Measures Act were censoring, and suppressing publications, maps, plans, photographs, communications and means of communication, they could arrest, detain, exclude and deport persons, they could control harbours, ports, territorial waters of Canada and the movements of vessels, they could control the transport of persons and things by land, air, or water and they could appropriate and dispose of property and the use thereof.
Why did people sign up to fight in the war?
People signed up to join the war because they wanted a sense of adventure and change, they wanted to feel like heroes, the romanticism of war and they wanted to make the people they know proud of them. They expected the war to be exciting and action filled and a chance to prove themselves when in reality it was gruesome and would leave many with terrible memories between the fighting and the living conditions.
