socials studies test

Question 1

what were the men’s roles in making fish?

Answer 1

Men had to fish for them, cutting and gutting them

Question 2

what were the women’s roles in making fish?

Answer 2

Women had to gut, split, cure, spread flakes, cook, and garden.

Question 3

what were children’s roles in making fish?

Answer 3

Children had to tend to babies, cook, cured fish, haul water, bring tea, light torches, cut, scoop, and scrap.

Question 4

the tree branches of Newfoundland fishery?

Answer 4

inshore fishery

Bank fishery

Labrador fishery

Question 5

what is the Inshore fishery?

Answer 5

They fished in dories and used baited hooks that were lowered into the ocean on hand lines. They were baited with shellfish, herring, capelin, and squid. then they would return to shore to drop off their catch.

Question 6

what is the Bank fishery?

Answer 6

Fish were plentiful in areas like Bank Rose Blanche, Grand Banks, and St.Pierre Bank. men would launch their dories over the sides of the schooners. Once they filled their dories, they would drop off their catch back at one of the schooners and get more bait for their lines.

Question 7

what is the Labrador fishery?

Answer 7

A migratory fishery conducted by non-residents. Many families spent from early summer to early fall “Down on the Labrador”. There was to groups in this fishery: the stationers and the r floaters

Question 8

what was the social impact of the fishery?

Answer 8

Men had so much time to go fishing and didn’t have much time for sitting wood. Women had to much time out in the garden.

Question 9

what was the economic impact of the fishery?

Answer 9

Overfished population, things evolved drastically, and fewer things from the early 1800s were being used.

Question 10

what is the truck system function?

Answer 10

a system where no money is exchanged. In return for the fishermen’s fish, families received credit to purchase supplies in the merchant stores.

Question 11

what was the merchant’s role in the fishery?

Answer 11

Their role in the fishery was to pay fisher families to go out and catch their fish for them. they paid them through the truck system.

Question 12

what were the merchants referred to as?

Answer 12

Merchants are considered the villains because they would constantly increase store prices, they did not pay families the credits they deserved, and they sometimes refused to honour credit.

Question 13

what was the Seal Hunt?

Answer 13

it was a really big industry in the 1800s, aboriginals and immigrants would go out on schooners and hunt seal. they would go out on the ice and snow in the ocean and go out to hunt seals.

Question 14

what were the dangers in the seal hunt?

Answer 14

The location of the seal hurds, the season they were being hunted, and the ways people hunted the seals. they could also get lost out on the ice or freeze to death.

Question 15

why was the Seal Hunt important?

Answer 15

It was important because it was a way to get resources like food, clothing and oil. the most important resource was oil.

Question 16

what was the effect of the fur trade?

Answer 16

the Innu would trade with the Hudson Bay Company, and they usually weren’t paid fair. As a result, they were sold bad deals that often resulted in the loss of economic gain for the Innu.

Question 17

what was the impact the Movaian had with the Inuit?

Answer 17

They worked trying to help the Inuit, and they treated them a little more reasonably than Hudson Bay did with the Innu. They offered a Truck system to the Inuit to get an education and health care in exchange for their services.

Question 18

why was boat building important?

Answer 18

It was important because at the time boat was the main resource to travel out to sea and across it.

Question 19

what were to ships Michael Kearney built?

Answer 19

The Ida had broken the fastest time to sail to Europe from North America and the Gauntlet had out-sailed a private ship in Coco island and won the Royal Yacht.

Question 20

who was Michael Kearney?

Answer 20

Michael Kearney was a master shipwright, sailmaker, and sailor. his ships were noted for their strength, speed, and beauty. Kearney was born in 1811 in Ferryland and died on March 4, 1885.

Question 21

what were the uses of Seal oil?

Answer 21

lamps, machine lubricants, softening textiles, ingredients in paint, an ingredient in explosives and an ingredient in butter/margarine.

Question 22

what were the two branches of the seal fishery

Answer 22

the “landsman’s hunt” and the “offshore fishery.”

Question 23

what were the fishers categorized in?

Answer 23

two groups. one called “The Stationers” and the other called “The Floaters”

Question 24

what did the Stationers do?

Answer 24

The stationers worked on the shore and salted and dried their fish

Question 25

what did the floaters do?

Answer 25

the floaters stayed on their boats, they had to heavenly salt their fish so it could be preserved, so it doesn’t dry

Question 26

what did trappers do?

Answer 26

trappers were Abroiginal people who were trapping animals for commercial gains because the need for beaver and fox fur was increasing.

Question 27

what are self-sufficient people?

Answer 27

they are people who can produce their own goods.

Question 28

what was a Subsistent economy?

Answer 28

an economy was where people are generally self-sufficient

Question 29

what was a consumer economy?

Answer 29

an economy where people depend on others (large companies) to satisfy their needs and wants.

Question 30

What was the roll the women and children played in the inshore fishery ?

Answer 30

They had to cure (salt and dry) the fish, ten to the garden, and care for the poultry and animals and washed cloths.

Question 31

What does “Cure” mean

Answer 31

To salt and dry fish

Question 32

what did they hunt seal with?

Answer 32

they hunt seals with Gaffs

Question 33

what were the dangers of the Bank Fishery?

Answer 33

the dangers were riding out in gales (strong winds) and the risk of getting lost in the fog, being capsized, rundown by boats, or stranded from the schooners.

Question 34

what are “Gales”?

Answer 34

strong winds