HISTORY 404: MID-YEAR EXAM

STUDY CHECKLIST

I Act of Union:

-The year of the Act of Union

-The purpose of the Act of Union

-Who created the Act of Union

-The Act of Union Chart

-The official language of Canada under the Act of Union

-The meaning of the word appointed

-The meaning of the word elected

-The difference between a council and an assembly

II Responsible Government:

-The two REFORMERS who fought for responsible government

-The year in which responsible government was granted

-What responsible government means

-The meaning of the word alliance

-The responsible government chart

III Economic Protectionism:

-What economic protectionism means

-What a preferential tariff is

-In what year Britain ended its protectionist policy (i.e. preferential tariffs) with Canada

-What customs duties are

IV The Government and the First Nations:

-What a reserve is

-Why reserves were created

-The relationship between reserves and sedentarization

-What the goal of missionaries vis a vis the First Nations was

-What the goal of residential schools was

-Why the government wanted to enfranchise the First Nations

-The role of the Indian agents

-The year of the Indian Act

V Towards a Canadian Federation:

  • The COLONIES that the British owned in North America around 1850
  • Who ran Canada’s INTERNAL affairs after responsible government was granted in 1848
  • Who ran Canada’s EXTERNAL affairs
  • The TWO POLITICAL camps into which politicians were divided in Canada in the 1850s
  • The leaders and parties in each camp.
  • How the GOALS of the conservatives differed from the GOALS of the liberals
  • What the POLITICAL problem in the colony was between 1854 and 1864
  • What PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION is and why George Brown wanted it

I CAN ANALYZE:

  • Read DOCUMENT 17 on page 41 of your textbook. Answer the question below it.
  • Analyze DOCUMENT 16 on page 41 of your textbook. What CHANGE do you see occurring between 1840 and 1851?

VI Towards a Canadian Federation: Economic Context

  • Who Canada’s main trading partner in the 1840s was
  • What happened in 1846
  • Who Canada started trading with in 1854
  • The name of the trade treaty signed with the U.S.
  • The year in which the U.S. cancel its trade agreement with Canada

VII Towards Confederation: The Great Coalition, The Conferences, and the BNA Act

  • Why the Great Coalition was formed
  • The three leaders who made up the Great Coalition
  • What the Great Coalition proposed as a solution to the political, economic, and defence-related issues facing Canada
  • Where the THREE confederation conferences were held, and what HAPPENED at each
  • The colonies who were not in favour of confederation and why
  • The name of the law that created our country
  • The first four provinces in Canada
  • What is the federal system of government
  • The levels of government in charge of the following:

-Indian Affairs-Trade-Education-Defence

-Civil Law-Health-Currency-Criminal Law

-Postal Services

VIII First Phase of Industrialization:

-What is industrialization

-Types of industries that developed in the nineteenth century

-Investors from which country

-Transportation networks that developed as a result of industrialization

-Sectors OF the forestry industry

-How farmers’ lives were transformed as a result of the forestry industry

-Consequences of farm mechanization

-The new agricultural industry that developed in Quebec

IX Social Changes due to Industrialization:

-The new social class that developed

-The owners of the means of production

-The pay scales of women and children

-Characteristics of the workplace

-What unions are and how they fought for better working conditions

-How the government responded to worker demands

-Consequences of industrialization on the rural population

-Living conditions of the working class and location of neighborhoods

-Why Quebeckers are moving to the States in the nineteenth century

-What States Quebeckers are moving to

-How the Quebec government and Catholic Church tried to keep Quebeckers in Quebec

-The impact of new colonization areas on indigenous populations

-Where new colonization areas were

-What agriculturism is

X National Policy:

-The PM who was in charge when the policy was passed

-The year of the policy

-The reasons why it was passed

-The three main components/parts of the policy and their desired effects

-The part of the world that most immigrants are coming from

XI The Presence of the Catholic Church:

-What they did in Quebec

-What ultramontanism is

-What the government gave the Church control over

-What survival nationalism is

-What anticlericalism is

-The name of the “club” that anticlericals started

-How the Church reacted to anticlericals

XII The Role of Women in the Nineteenth Century:

-What rights women were starting to demand

-Jobs open to women

XIII Nationalism and Imperialism:

-What the differences between the imperialists and the nationalists were

-What Laurier’s policy vis a vis the two above groups was

-Examples of how Laurier sought to appease imperialists AND nationalists

-Examples of and reasons for nineteenth century xenophobia

XIV Second Phase of Industrialization:

-What the new energy sources were

-Two factors which contributed towards Canada’s industrial growth

-The main industrial sectors that developed

-What electrometallurgy and electrochemistry are

-The main resources exploited

-What economic liberalism is

-The main investors in Quebec’s industries

-What a trade balance is

-How industrialization affected the growth of transportation infrastructures

-What monopoly capitalism is