Victorian Age Introduction
Women's Roles
Opium in Canada
Chinese Immigration
Random
100
Why did people not want to have darker skin during the 1800s?
What is it showed lower class status.
100
Name 2 common jobs women had during the Victorian Age.
What is Nursing and Teaching
100
What was the stereotype about Opium? (Who did people believe smoked it)
What is the Chinese.
100
What are meeting halls called?
What is a tong
100
What city in Canada had the largest Chinatown in the 1880s?
What is Victoria
200
Whose tastes, values, and behaviour set the standard for everyone during the Victorian Age.
Who is Queen Victoria
200
What was a common Working-Class female job?
What is a domestic servant.
200
Where does opium come from?
What is the poppy.
200
What were 2 jobs Working Class Chinese immigrants had in Canada during the 1880s?
What is Cooks, laundry, gardeners, coalmines, CPR workers
200
What did people in the country do for leisure?
What is quilting bees, weddings, barn raisings.
300
What was the most common religion in Canada during the 1800s?
What is Christian
300
Why did women generally not work outside of the home?
What is their role was a homemaker and were to take care of the home and children.
300
Why did Victoria BC become larger in the 1850s?
What is the gold rush
300
Why did BC hire Chinese workers?
What is cheap labour.
300
What were the two types of transportation for travelling during the Victorian Age?
What is by train or steamboat.
400
Explain the difference between Upper Class and Working Class housing.
What is Upper class had large, spacious and decorated houses, while the Working class lived in smaller houses in poorer sections of town.
400
What year did women receive the right to vote in British Columbia?
What is 1917
400
Where was opium produced?
What is factories, usually small buildings, in back alleys.
400
Explain how Chinese immigrants were discriminated against.
What is Head Tax, Riots
400
What is one popular sport in Canada during the Victorian Age?
What is Swimming, bear-baiting, dog-and-bull fighting, bare-knuckle boxing
500
Why was the Victorian era was quite optimistic about the future?
What is British Empire grew larger and stronger AND New discoveries in medicine, science, and technology
500
How did Upper-Class women dress during the Victorian Age.
What is many layers, modest, gloves, decorative hats, shoes and umbrellas.
500
What are 3 effects of opium?
What is Feeling of relaxation, euphoria and drowsiness, Lowered blood pressure, Weight loss, Sleepiness, Over time, addiction, Risk of death from overdose
500
What are 3 reasons employers valued Chinese workers?
What is Worked hard for less money than white immigrants. Did what they were told to do. Did not get drunk or get into fights Did not complain about their poor living conditions
500
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is in 1923 Canadian government banned Chinese immigration to Canada.
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