Life in the 1800
What two things spread quickly in the 1800s?
Fire and Disease
Upper Canada
In the 1800s, what were the three different levels of social structure?
Upper, middle, and lower class
Why is it important to understand multiple perspectives in hsitory?
What time period are we studying in history right now?
1800s
What was the role of children in the 1800s?
Did most of the Loyalists settle in Upper or Lower Canada?
What was the role of the church in the 1800s?
To provide social services (nuns) and to provide religious guidance (priests).
Assimilation: a culture loss when there is an imbalance: one culture gives up aspects of its own culture to embrace another group’s culture.
What does domestic help mean?
It means performing chores or working within the household environment.
Why were fires and disease hard to stop in the 1800s?
Fires- They were hard to stop because houses were made of wood. They did not have the technology to put them out (fire hoses).
Disease- Medical care was not as developed and lots of people lived in small houses.
When Loyalist came to Canada, what group of people experiences displacement?
What groups made up most of the population in the 1800s?
Most townspeople in the early 1800s in Canada belong to the middle and lower class and mostly made up of Canadiens.
Define the word class structure and state how class structure has to do with historical perspective
Class Structure: a system for ordering society based on social or economic status.
Who are Loyalists?
What did Canada look like when the Loyalists arrived?
Canada did not have buildings and established roads. This meant the Loyalist first order of business was to establish these basic needs and locate food.
How did people from Britain travel to Canada? Why is this important to understand?
Boats through the St.Lawerence River and wagons on trails.
What jobs did the middle and lower class people perform?
Some of the working positions of the middle class are;
Shoekeeper
Bakers
Blacksmiths
Dressmakers
Grocers
Contact between two groups can result in cultural change. Sometimes cultural change is a positive experience, whereby both groups benefit from the best that each culture has to offer.
What two groups of people were predominantly enslaved in Canada in the 1800s?
Between 1671 and 1833, about 4,200 people were enslaved in Canada. Two-thirds of the people were First Nations, and one-third were Black.
When Loyalist arrived, what was the most common job?
Some Loyalist took jobs in town, however, most Loyalist settled in the backwoods and cleared land to start farms.
Why were British settlers moving to Canada? Why is this important to understand?
Britain was getting busy and crowded. People were not able to get great jobs in Britain. Canada understood the power or influence of Britain, and British settlers were being encouraged with free land to move to Canada to help develop the land and create more trade opportunities.
In 1807, when the Canadian Government started to find public schools, how many schools did they open? How many boys were able to attend?
8 public schools, 100 at each school.
What happens if there is an imbalance of one culture during contact between two groups?
Loss of culture. Potentially assimilation.
How were slavery advertisements used in the 1800s?
Advertisements were placed in local newspapers to buy and sell enslaved people, or to offer rewards to people who return the enslaved people who had run away from their “master.”