Population Growth & Cities
This term describes people moving from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This Industrial Revolution happened first and focused on steam power and manufacturing.
What is the First Industrial Revolution?
This dispute was between Canada and this country.
What is the United States?
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Gold was discovered in the Yukon in this year.
What is 1896?
This railway connected Canada from east to west.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)?
Between 1881 and 1911, the percentage of Canadians living in cities grew from about 25% to this amount.
What is about 50%?
This Industrial Revolution included factories, electricity, and automation.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
The dispute focused on the border between Southeast Alaska and this Canadian province.
What is British Columbia?
This person helped discover gold and started the Klondike Gold Rush.
Who is Skookum Jim Mason?
The CPR encouraged settlement by advertising this in Western Canada.
What is free farmland?
This was one major reason people moved to cities during this time period.
What is industrialization?
These two transportation technologies helped industrialization grow in Canada.
What are railways and canals?
This 1825 treaty tried to define the Alaska boundary but was unclear.
What is the Treaty of St. Petersburg?
This Yukon city grew rapidly and became a major supply center during the Gold Rush.
What is Dawson City?
Many workers from this country helped build the CPR.
What is China?
People who moved to cities to start businesses were known by this term.
What are entrepreneurs?
This invention made cars cheaper and more available to people.
What is the assembly line?
The treaty said the border should be 56 km inland, but this key term was unclear.
What is the “ocean coast”?
Most people who came to the Yukon during the Gold Rush ended up doing this.
What is leaving without finding gold?
Over 600 workers from this group died building the railway.
Who are Chinese railway workers?
Canada’s population growth between 1881 and 1911 was strongly linked to city growth and this economic change.
What is the growth of manufacturing and industry?
This famous industrialist introduced the moving assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
In 1903, this decision-making group ruled mostly in favor of the United States.
What is the International Tribunal?
Name one major negative effect of the Gold Rush on the Yukon.
What is environmental damage or harm to Indigenous cultures?
This 1876 law controlled Indigenous peoples and banned ceremonies like the potlatch.
What is the Indian Act?