Week 8 Study Terms

Question 1

Eshkani-Ziibi

Answer 1

Also known as Antler River or Thames River here in London, Ontario

Question 2

Battle of the Thames

Answer 2

A decisive battle in the War of 1812, took place on October 5, 1813 in Upper Canada, near Chatham

Question 3

Egerton Ryerson

Answer 3

A Canadian educator, author and minister. Considered a founder of the Ontario public school system, he also helped to establish the Indian Residential School system in Canada
Author of “The Loyalists of America and Their Times”

Question 4

Tecumseh

Answer 4

A Shawnee leader who along with his brother Tenskwatawa organized a pan-Indigenous confederacy in the Great Lakes and Midwest region

Question 5

Naïve realism

Answer 5

Belief that history is “just facts”
If accounts conflict, all but one must be wrong

Question 6

Naïve relativism

Answer 6

Belief that history is “just opinions”
If accounts conflict, each one is as valid as any other
No criteria for judging other than personal choice