Canadian Identity
What is hockey?
An idea to be tested or a question to be answered
What is an hypothesis?
This refers to people coming into a country
What is immigration?
What were the British people who didn't want to become Americans when the American War of Independence happened in 1775?
United Empire Loyalists (will accept Loyalists)
What kind of immigrants were preferred for settlement to Canada in the 1800s?
White English speakers
The weather associated with Canada
What is cold/ snow?
Forms of mass communication that include oral and written words, pictures, and sounds
What is media?
This is the movement of people out of a country
What is emigration?
What were Black Loyalists promised for fighting with the British against the revolting colonists?
Freedom and land
What country were 17 000 workers brought over from and paid $1 a day to build the railroad in Western Canada?
China
An animal that builds dams that Canada is known for
What is a beaver?
Pride and devotion to one’s country
What is nationalism?
A reason that makes you want to leave your country.
What is a push factor?
What did the rebels do that caused about 2000 Haudenosaunee supporters of the British to flee to Canada?
Rebels destroyed their villages
What was the law called that prevented Indians from immigrating to Canada by saying that boats carrying immigrants had to come directly to Canada without stopping on the way?
Continual Passage Law
Canadians are known for this kind of behaviour
What is politeness/kindness? (Will accept other descriptors that mean the same)
Referring to groups or divisions of humankind distinguished by customs, characteristics, language…
What is Ethnicity?
A reason that makes you want to move to a new country
What is a pull factor?
What colony was created because most of the loyalists that settled in Nova Scotia?
New Brunswick
Why were Irish immigrants discriminated against?
They were Catholic
What is Tim Horton's?
People who are forced out of their countries by push factors like war and famine
What are refugees?
This is the term for when educated, professionals like nurses start leaving a country due to push factors like poor pay and long hours
What is a brain drain?
Why did the British give the colonies in present-day Canada elected assemblies after the war with the rebel colonists in the USA?
To ensure they didn't rebel (or similar answer to this)
What group influenced the outcome of the 1929 Saskatchewan election campaign with their ideas about schools, immigration and religion?
The Ku Klux Klan