Unit II

Question 1

Residential Schools:

What were the Indian Residential schools?

Answer 1

A boarding school for First Nations peoples

Goal was to assimilate First Nations into the European culture

Question 2

Residential Schools:

Who paid for the schools?

Answer 2

The Canadian government

Question 3

Residential schools:

Who ran the schools?

Answer 3

The Catholic Church / priest

Question 4

Residential Schools:

When did the last Indian Residential School close?

Answer 4

1996

Question 5

Rwandan Genocide:

What are the three groups of Rwandans and what percent of the population do they take up?

Answer 5

The Hutu (85%)
The Tutsi (14%)
The Twa (1%)

Question 6

Rwandan Genocide:

Who initially colonized Rwanda?

Answer 6

Germans

Question 7

Rwandan Genocide:

What event launched the genocide? What was the date?

Answer 7

April 7, 1994, A plan to get rid of the president

Question 8

Rwandan Genocide:

When did the genocide end?

Answer 8

July 18, 1994

Question 9

Rwandan Genocide:

Why didn’t Rwanda’s fate seem to interest most world powers?

Answer 9

It doesn’t have any oil, steel, diamonds or other natural resources, it isn’t a strategic place

Question 10

Slavery:

How did business owners benefit from slave labour?

Answer 10

Cheap labour made it easier to achieve higher profits

Question 11

slavery:

What kind of resources did the slaves help to extract or create?

Answer 11

Iron, gun powder, crops

Question 12

Slavery:

Which four continents were involved in he slave trade?

Answer 12

Africa, Europe, North America, and South America

Question 13

Slavery:

How did Europeans obtain the African slaves?

Answer 13

They captured, chained and traded them

Question 14

Slavery:

What were the primary crops grown by slaves?

Answer 14

Sugar, tobacco. and coffee

Question 15

Define Imperialism

Answer 15

One country’s domination over another country’s economic, political and cultural institutions

Question 16

What is this word?
refers to a way of thinking that centers on one’s own race and culture, these people believe that their culture is the best and that their worldview is the only valid one.

Answer 16

Ethnocentrism

Question 17

Define Americanization od Culture/Universalization

Answer 17

the spread of culture, trends, customs and practices around the world

Question 18

Define Hybridization

Answer 18

the combining of elements of two or more different things to create something new

Question 19

What is this word?

the erasing of differences. erasing of cultural difference so that people become more and more similar

Answer 19

Homogenization

Question 20

Define Acculturation

Answer 20

the cultural changes that occur when two culture accommodate, or adapt to, each other’s worldviews

Question 21

Define Integration

Answer 21

form of culture exchange in which one group assumes the beliefs, practices of another group without sacrificing the characteristics of it’s own culture

Question 22

Define Accommodation

Answer 22

a process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space fore one another.

Question 23

What word is this?

treatment od a person, group or concept as insignificant

Answer 23

Marginalization

Question 24

Define Assimilation

Answer 24

a process that occurs when a culture group is absorbed by another culture. The culture identity disappears as it’s members take on the identity of the other culture

Question 25

What word is this?
the policy or practice acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically

Answer 25

Colonialism

Question 26

Define Mercantilism

Answer 26

the economic practice that prohibited the trade of goods with other European countries

Question 27

Industrial Revolution:

What was it?

Answer 27

• a transition between 1720 and 1840
• changed the way people manufactured goods
• switch from hand making items to using machines
• Textiles became the dominate industry
• iron and steel became important materials

Question 28

Industrial Revolution:

What were the 3 most important changes brought about the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 28

1) the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools
2) the use of steam, such as steam engines
3) the adoption of the factory system

Question 29

Industrial Revolution:

4 most important inventions/machines

Answer 29

1. The Steam Engine
2. Flying Shuttle
3. Spinning Jenny
4. Spinning Mule

Question 30

What was the “Grand Exchange”?

Answer 30

• Trading process that began when Columbus brought seeds, fruit trees, and livestock to the Americans
• in return spices were exported to Europe

Question 31

What was the Indian Act and it’s purpose?

Answer 31

• 1876, was a tool of assimilation

- created to control and supress First Nations peoples

Question 32

Silk Road:

What was traded?

Answer 32

Knowledge, diseases and goods/ spices

Question 33

Where did the Silk Road take place?

Answer 33

Asia and Europe

Question 34

How does slavery reflect on globalization?

Answer 34

slaves brought music, dance, art, traditions, languages, cultures and foods.

Question 35

What is a legacy?

Answer 35

• something important that you leave behind
• something that is passed on from those in the past
  ex. language, traditions, names

Question 36

What was the most known legacy that Canada has to live with?

Answer 36

residential schools

Question 37

What is the term for when Britain had direct control over India?

Answer 37

raj