sources

Question 1

what are sources?

Answer 1

a source is anything which survives from the past or tells us about the past

Question 2

primary source

Answer 2

something which comes form the time period you are studying (raw materials of history)

Question 3

primary source examples

Answer 3

artifacts (coins, painting, fossils, photographs, buildings etc. )
written (diaries, letters, laws, newspapers etc. )

Question 4

secondary source

Answer 4

a PRODUCT of the study of history

things historians make form raw materials-they are based on primary evidence

Question 5

secondary source examples

Answer 5

books, movies, documentaries, articles etc.

Question 6

suspicion that a source is unreliable

Answer 6

clear bias of the writer
factual errors
exaggerated comments
inconsistent with similar sources
written long time after the events it describes
produced for a particular purpose

Question 7

primary bias

Answer 7

general writing in diary may make it sound like he single-handedly won the war and his strategy was flawless

Question 8

secondary bias

Answer 8

an american filmmaker may produce a movie about WW2 that only shows Germans as supporting Hitler and the Nazis

Question 9

what year was confederation?

Answer 9

july 1, 1867

Question 10

who was canada’s first prime minister?

Answer 10

John A. MacDonald

Question 11

when did the provinces and territories join Canada?

Answer 11

1867 New Brunswick 
1867 Nova Scotia 
1867 Quebec
1867  Ontaria
1870 Manitoba
1870 Northwest Territories
1871 British Columbia
1873 PEI
1898 Yukon
1905 Alberta
1905 Saskatchewan
1949 Newfoundland
1999 Nunavut

Question 12

William Lyon Mackenzie

Answer 12

one of the leaders of the rebellion in 1837 in upper Canada

Question 13

general causes of confederation

Answer 13

1. changing Britain attitudes
2. the US civil war
3. Trade issues
4. The Railway

Question 14

changing the British attitudes

Answer 14

by the 1860s Britain had redirected its focus involving the empire
committed to imperial greatness, emphasis shifted from military strength to trade and profit

Question 15

the US civil war

Answer 15

1861 - 1865

Britain claimed neutrality

Question 16

trade issues

Answer 16

Britain ended policy of providing the colonies with protective tariffs
- Great Britain wanted to increase trade around the world
treaty of reciprocity would be cancelled between US and GB tension over civil war
- independent Canada creates better trade deals with the US

Question 17

the railway

Answer 17

bridged gap across Canada’s large geography

Question 18

1900 - 1914

Answer 18

2 new provinces added
depression from railroad construction
high unemployment
ne wprime minister Wilfrid Laurier

Question 19

who wanted to increase immigration?

Answer 19

Laurier ans Minister of Interior CLIFFORD SIFTON

Question 20

who did they encourage to come to Canada?

Answer 20

Ukrainian, Polish and German farmers

Question 21

how did they promote Canada?

Answer 21

pamphlets - great climate and soil for farming

Question 22

by when did the prairie population triple?

Answer 22

1910

Question 23

what immigrants were highly not welcomed?

Answer 23

asian, especially females

used head taxes, landing taxes and land restrictions to discourage them

Question 24

women’s legal realities

Answer 24

• when married, women surrendered all property rights to husband
• not provided for in husband’s will
  man could seek force on grounds of adultery, women could not

Question 25

what does “new women” mean?

Answer 25

middle to upper class
protestant
well educated
wealthy and often employed outside of the home

Question 26

what is social justice for women?

Answer 26

Urban poverty and injustices in the working world

Question 27

organizations created by women (W.C.T.U)

Answer 27

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

National Council of the Women of Canada

Question 28

when did the Anglo-Boer war happen?

Answer 28

1899

britain called empire to help

Question 29

decisions Laurier had to face during the Boer war

Answer 29

1. aid Britain and lose Quebec’s support

2. avoid joining the fight and upset pro-empire Canada

Question 30

how did Laurier compromise during the Boer war?

Answer 30

sends volunteers, providing that Britain paid their expenses

Question 31

whose support did Laurier lose during the Boer war?

Answer 31

Henri Bourassa, former ally and liberall MP, resigned over the war and was re-elected as independent

Question 32

when did Britain launch the HMS Dreadnought?

Answer 32

1906

Question 33

what was a dreadnought?

Answer 33

a new class of warship, more powerful than anything seen before
made existing British ships obsolete

Question 34

what was Laurier’s NAVAL SERVICE BILL OF 1910?

Answer 34

laurier’s compromise
created a small Canadian navy composed of 2 ships
Canadian owned but in case of an emergency it would be placed under British control

Question 35

what did Canadian’s think of the “tinpot” navy?

Answer 35

English - thought it would be of little assistance to Britain
French - outraged at the thought of Canada helping Britain in any imperial conflict

Question 36

what year did Laurier lose election and to whom?

Answer 36

in 1911 to Borden

Question 37

when did Americans propose a trade deal? what happened?

Answer 37

1911
Laurier accepts and announces the reciprocal trade
people argue deal shows disloyalty to Britain
feared that cheap American goods would ruin Canada’s manufacturing growth
borden denies trade and succeeds when he beats Laurier in the 1911 election

Question 38

Acronym for confederation

Answer 38

N(ippers) S(nip
N(ot) B(ecause) 3
Q(uiet)
O(striches)

M(ake)
N(ew) T(eeth) 1

B(ut) C(ause). 2

P(eter’s). 25

Y(outh). 7

A(lways). 44
S(aves).

N(orth) F(rances)50

N(oggin)