Clifford Sifton
Frank Oliver
Legislation
immigrant groups
Asian immigration
100
Clifford Sifton's job title
What is minister of the interior of the Laurier government
100
1905
What year did Frank Oliver become Minister of the Interior?
100
The government decided it could move this group of people of their lands in 1908.
Who are the Aboriginals
100
white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants
What was Canada's preferred groups of immigrants?
100
A tax put on Chinese immigrants.
What is a head tax?
200
Agricultural workers
What is Clifford Sifton's preferred group of immigrants?
200
Anyone from Britain: agricultural or urban worker.
Who was Oliver's preferred immigrant?
200
This was the deal Canada reached with Japan to restrict Japanese immigration to 400 people/year.
What is The Gentlemen's Agreement?
200
haughty and snobbish
How were British immigrants viewed?
200
By 1905, the cost of Chinese immigration.
What is $500.
300
HBC and railroads pressured to give up land.
How did Sifton get land to give to immigrants?
300
The North Atlantic Trading Co.
What was the company that Sifton had used to bring in immigrants from all over Europe that Oliver closed?
300
This world event caused the Canadian government to change its mind about letting in pacifist immigrants.
What was World War I?
300
medical and climate reasons
What was the excuse for barring black Americans from immigrating?
300
Head tax, quotas, and violence/riots.
What were the examples of discrimination faced by Asian immigrants?
400
Brochures, Pamphlets and news paper ads in many languages.
How did Sifton promote Canada abroad?
400
1906 and 1910
What were the years of Oliver's two Immigration Acts?
400
This act, passed in 1923, banned a specific group of immigrants from Canada for the next 24 years.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Only 400 Japanese immigrants were allowed into Canada per year as a result of this.
What is the gentlemen's agreement with Japan?
500
Made it easier to buy adjacent land, discontinued giving land to railroad companies, cutting out red tape for homesteaders.
What are the three things Sifton did to make it easier to immigrate out west?
500
Direct Passage Law
What was the law used to keep the Komagata Maru from landing on Canadian soil?
500
Two more groups of immigrants who were banned from entering Canada in 1911.
What were alcoholics and illiterates?
500
In 1907, 10 000 people rampaged through Chinatown.
What were the anti-Asian riots?
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