Chapter four

Question 1

Who did King Henry VII send to establish new trade routes at Asia?

Answer 1

John Cabot, he founded Newfoundland.

Question 2

Who did King Francis I send to establish new trade routes to Asia?

Answer 2

Jacques Cartier, he founded New Brunswick.

Question 3

How long did it take the first wave of epidemics to reduce an Aboriginal population to a tenth of its original size?

Answer 3

After about 50 years.

Question 4

How many indigenous people lived in the Americas before European contact?

Answer 4

Around 50 million and up.

Question 5

Why were aboriginals more susceptible to diseases compared to Europeans?

Answer 5

1. Long distance trade
2. Urbanization
3. Living among domesticated animals

Question 6

Who were the United Empire Loyalists?

Answer 6

They were the Americans that didn’t want to fight against Britain so they moved to North America to escape persecution.

Question 7

Why did the United States declare war on Canada in 1812?

Answer 7

Britain was at war with Napoleon and not letting any country trade with the French, the Americans stated that Britain couldn’t stop them trading with the French. Britain starts taking America ships and sailors going to France, America then starts war on Britain and attacks Canada.

Question 8

When did the War of 1812 end and who won?

Answer 8

December 24, 1814. It was basically a stalemate.

Question 9

Why did the War of 1812 create a sense of nationalism in Canada?

Answer 9

Canada defeated the Americans because we settled our differences and worked together.

Question 10

Why was the American Civil War a catalyst for Confederation of the Canadian colonies?

Answer 10

The United States attacked Canada in 1812 and almost won, after the Civil War they had the largest most industrialized army that could defeat Canada more easily. The Canadian colonies come together into what is now Canada.

Question 11

Why did Great Britain permit Canada to become a sovereign nation?

Answer 11

Yes, they didn’t want another American revolution and hoped that if Canada was permitted to be independent they would stay in the British empire. The British empire costs a lot to maintain and Britain wanted Canada to pay their own way.

Question 12

Why did the Americans expand westward?

Answer 12

They decided a conflict with Canada would be more difficult compared to the aboriginal nations of the west.

Question 13

What was the American aboriginal policy in 1871?

Answer 13

The United States government passed a new law stating that native American groups were no longer independent nations and instead are now wards of the government to be taken care of and as such are really US citizens. This means that if the native resist they are traitors to be put down.

Question 14

What was the American aboriginal population in America by the 1890s?

Answer 14

It was reduced to 250000 native Americans.

Question 15

Why was the Canadian government concerned with the prairies by 1871?

Answer 15

If Canada didn’t make settlements on the south boarders America was going to try and settle there.

Question 16

Why did both the Canadian government and aboriginal people want to negotiate treaties?

Answer 16

Canada needed to settle the prairies quickly and didn’t have the time to forcefully take it, and the first nations didn’t want the Americans to do to them what they did to the first nations in the south.

Question 17

How many numbered Indian treaties have been signed?

Answer 17

11

Question 18

What did the aboriginals receive in exchange for the land?

Answer 18

In exchange for the land Canada promised to give the first nations various items like cash, blankets, tools, farming supplies and so on.

Question 19

What did the construction of the railroad permit Clifford Sifton to do?

Answer 19

It allowed him to go get settlers to live in this land.

Question 20

Why was Louis Riel executed?

Answer 20

Louis Riel fought 2 rebellions against the Canadian government wen they tried to take the land without negotiating. He fought the Red River and North West rebellions. This convinced the Canadian government to negotiate. He is a hero to the first nations and the French.

Question 21

What was the Canadian government’s primary method to assimilate aboriginal people and did it work?

Answer 21

Residential schools were schools that kids were forced to go to and no it wasn’t successful.

Question 22

Why was the United States so divisive following the American revolution?

Answer 22

Because of slavery.

Question 23

Why were the southern states dependent on slavery?

Answer 23

Their primary source of income was agricultural and they thought the only way to make profit was free labour.

Question 24

Why did the northern states require paid workers?

Answer 24

They were a factory economy and they needed paid workers to buy the stuff they were making.

Question 25

How was slavery justified?

Answer 25

They thought they were saving them from hell and teaching them.

Question 26

Why did cotton production increase in the American south in the 19th century?

Answer 26

Because of industrialization and the Cotton gin.

Question 27

Why did slaves become such a valuable commodity in the southern states?

Answer 27

Slaves were made illegal so there was less slaves to sell now whatever there was left the south wanted.

Question 28

Who were the abolitionists?

Answer 28

The abolitionists were people that wanted to end slavery.

Question 29

Did the northern and southern states try to peaceful settle their differences in the early 19th century?

Answer 29

Yes, in 1820 the Missouri compromise and Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. The fugitive slaves ran away to free states but they had to be returned. The compromise were band aids to cover the wound.

Question 30

What is the republican party?

Answer 30

A new political party formed in 1854 with the goal of ended slavery.

Question 31

What was the statistical demographics of the north?

Answer 31

23 states, 21 million people, about 100000 factories, and 70% of the railroads.

Question 32

What was the statistical demographics of the south?

Answer 32

11 states, 9 million people (3.5 million were slaves), about 18000 factories, and 30% of railroads.

Question 33

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 33

The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest battle up to that point in the civil war. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the south had until January 1st 1863 to end the war and return if they didn't they were going to free all the slaves and if they returned they wouldn't.

Question 34

How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the American Civil war?

Answer 34

Britain stopped helping the south now that the war was about slavery. African Americans now sign up to fight for the north. Lincoln is going to do whatever it takes to win this war.

Question 35

What was the cost of the American Civil war?

Answer 35

The civil war was so bloody it had more death than any other way.

Question 36

Why is the US Civil war considered to be a transitional war?

Answer 36

It is going to be the first industrialized war and killed is more efficient than ever before, it's the first war with railroads, telegraphs, and hot air balloons.

Question 37

Why were the many white Americans in the deep south fearful of permitting African Americans the right to vote?

Answer 37

They outnumber the whites and were treated poorly.

Question 38

What happened to the Confederate leaders of the American Civil war?

Answer 38

They were all pardoned from Andrew Johnson.

Question 39

What was the Black Codes?

Answer 39

Laws targeting African Americans had denied basic rights and freedoms.

Question 40

Who are the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 40

Was a terrorist organization created during the reconstruction period with the goal of terrorizing the African American people.

Question 41

What was the Jim Crow Legislation?

Answer 41

Separates the whites from the African Americans AKA segregation laws.