Historical Thinking
Historians use these three criteria to determine historical significance.
What are depth, scope, and duration of impact?
This city is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
These are the three constitutionally recognized Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Who are First Nations, Inuit, and Métis?
Canadian Confederation took place on this date.
What is July 1, 1867?
This politician became Canada's first prime minister in 1867.
Who was John A. Macdonald?
This term describes little or no change over a period of time.
What is continuity?
Canada is made up of this many provinces and territories.
What are 10 provinces and 3 territories?
Broadly, this term refers to the original peoples of the land and their descendants, whose presence predates European settlement.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
This term describes a British colony that had substantial control over its own domestic affairs.
What is a Dominion?
This politician and journalist was a prominent French-Canadian nationalist who opposed aspects of British imperialism and advocated greater Canadian autonomy.
Who was Henri Bourassa?
Historians should avoid judging people in the past solely according to today's attitudes and values. This mistake is called...
What is presentism?
Name the three oceans bordering Canada.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans?
Residential schools were established and operated through colonial governments and churches largely to pursue this goal toward Indigenous children.
What is assimilation?
During the American Revolution, these supporters of the British Crown fled north, with many settling in what became Canada.
Who were the Loyalists?
This politician, minister, and social reformer was a prominent labour advocate and later helped found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
Who was J. S. Woodsworth?
A historian asks who created a document, when it was created, why it was created, and for whom. The historian is using this technique.
What is sourcing?
These three provinces make up Canada's Prairie provinces.
What are Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba?
Indigenous peoples contributed to the War of 1812 to aid both the British and the French. Their 2 major outcomes of the war were...
What are death and loss of traditional territory?
This conflict between Britain and the United States ended without major lasting changes to the prewar boundary between British North America and the United States.
What was the War of 1812?
This prime minister's era was characterized by high immigration and substantial economic growth, while many workers, Chinese Canadians, First Nations, French Canadians, women, and other groups continued to experience inequality, poverty, or discrimination.
Who was Wilfrid Laurier?
A new government policy benefits one group but harms another. Using continuity and change, the same policy could therefore represent these two different types of change.
What are progress and decline?
Name all five Great Lakes.
What are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario?
Between roughly 1815 and 1865, this network of secret routes and safe houses helped enslaved African Americans escape toward freedom, including into British North America.
What was the Underground Railroad?
Match each rebellion with its leader: Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
Who were William Lyon Mackenzie (Upper Canada) and Louis-Joseph Papineau (Lower Canada)?