The 1900s

Question 1

The 4 Concepts of Historical Thinking

Answer 1

Cause and Consequence
- Cause and consequence is what causes specific events to occur and the consequences created by those events.

Continuity and Change
- Continuity and Change is the study of things that change throughout the course of history, or of things that stay the same.

Historical Significance
- is the study of the perspectives of people from the past and the understanding of why they thought and acted the way they did.

Historical Perspectives
- Historical Significance is the study of what makes specific events so important, and why certain historical events are still relevant today.

Question 2

Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Who was he? What is notable about him?

Answer 2

Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the 7th Prime Minister of Canada.
He was Canada’s first ever Francophone Prime Minister.
and served an unbroken, 15 year long term as Prime Minister, the longest in our history.

Question 3

Sir Wilfrid Laurier: What were his views and goals?

Answer 3

He was a believer in Canadian freedom and advocated constantly for better relations between French and English Canadians.

Question 4

Immigration in the 1900s:
Why was immigration encouraged?

Answer 4

to increase its population in the West. the western regions were so underpopulated, the United States might of eventually taken the land.

Question 5

Immigration in the 1900s:
What industries benefited from immigration?

Answer 5

The immigration boom boosted the farming industry in Canada.

Question 6

Immigration in the 1900s: What challenges did certain immigrants face?

Answer 6

immigrants from China, India and Africa were not so warmly welcomed Due to racism, and the belief that Canada should remain European in appearance. The Chinese, were forced to pay a head tax upon entering the country and there children could not attend regular schools.

Question 7

Immigration in the 1900s:
who opposed immigration

Answer 7

Louis Riel, a Métis leader, led a rebellion against the Canadian government to save his land from being occupied by immigrants.

Question 8

Residential Schools:
What were they? Who did they target?

Answer 8

schools for first nations, metis and inuit children to be educated in the ways of their European overlords.

Question 9

Residential Schools:
What was their goal?

Answer 9

was to destroy the culture of the indegenous children and assimilate the children into the European culture of colonial Canada.

Question 10

Residential Schools:
what does the term assimilate mean

Answer 10

Assimilation is the act of replacing the culture of a group of people or minority with the dominant culture of the place they live in.

Question 11

Residential Schools:
Who supported residential schools?

Answer 11

Duncan Campbell Scott was the head of the Canadian Government’s Department of Indian Affairs during the time.

Question 12

Residential Schools:
What were the consequences?

Answer 12

Children in residential schools died at a rate similar to men who served in World War I.
Children were often abused, sometimes sexually, in residential schools.
PTSD and alcoholism are prevalent among residential school survivors.

Question 13

Residential schools:
what were they like

Answer 13

Not allowed to see their siblings if they went to the same school.
Not allowed to speak their own language (or their tongues would be pinched).
Not allowed to dress or wear their hair the way that they wanted to.

Question 14

Technology in the 1900s:
Which technological advancements led to change in the 1900s? Why were they important? Who invented them?

Answer 14

wireless communication This was revolutionary, because the only mode of communication before was through morse code. invented by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

Question 15

Technology in the 1900s: How did industrialization change Canada?

Answer 15

rapid urbanization brought people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an increasing demand for workers led masses of people to migrate from farms to cities

Question 16

Technology in the 1900s: What was technology like compared to today?

Answer 16

Before technology, there were very limited options of communication an example being letters. We now have, wide variety of ways to communicate with one another, to always keep us in touch

Question 17

Nellie McClung: Who was she?

Answer 17

She was a Lecturer, teacher, author, suffragette, legislator and temperance worker.

Question 18

Nellie McClung: What did she accomplish? Why and how did she accomplish this?

Answer 18

Nellie McClung fought for women’s rights on multiple fronts. She was part of the Temperance movement as well the Suffragette movement of the early 1900s.

Question 19

Nellie McClung: Who opposed her? Who were her allies?

Answer 19

Rodmond Roblin and The majority of men in Canada opposed not only women’s right to vote, but their right to be recognized as more than the property of man.

Question 20

Nellie McClung: What forms of feminism did we see during the time period?

Answer 20

The temperance movement was a group of women who were against the consumption of alcohol advacting for prohibition. It was the first example of women forming organizations

The Suffragettes was an organization of women advocating for the right to vote for women. Nellie McClung was the head of the suffragettes in Canada.

Question 21

Tom Longboat: who was he

Answer 21

Tom Longboat was one of Canada’s greatest long distance runners

Question 22

Tom Longboat: what did he accomplish

Answer 22

he won the Hamilton Bay long-distance race and the famous Boston Marathon, setting a world record in the process.

Question 23

Tom Longboat: What did he need to overcome in order to do so?

Answer 23

Tom Longboat had to endure intense racism At the time, newspapers regularly used racist language to describe the origins of non- white Canadians, and called Tom many names.