Key Events 1
It is said that the Industrial Revolution began here.
Great Britain
The phenomenon that too place between the “old world” and the “new world?”
The Grand/Columbian Exchange
Who wrote the Wealth of Nations and was in support of capitalism?
Adam Smith
The policy of one country extending political economic, or military control over another.
Imperialism
T or F, Mercantilism encouraged more imports than exports.
False
This economic activity, central to early Canadian history, involved trading animal pelts, especially beaver, between Indigenous peoples and European settlers.
The Fur Trade
The law passed in 1867 created Canada by joining several British colonies into one country with a federal government.
BNA Act
Which of the following groupings initially benefited the most economically from the impact of historical globalization? First Nations, Explorers, or Colonists.
Colonists.
Moving from rural areas to cities.
Urbanization
Are/is credited as the principal founders of modern communism.
Karl Marx and/or Friedrich Engels
This (present day) country was the eastern end of the Silk Road, the network of trade routes connecting it to the Mediterranean.
China
________ in Canada removed many Indigenous children from their families and communities in an attempt to assimilate them into European Canadian culture.
Residential Schools
Who is thought to be the ‘last’ Beothuk person.
Shanawdithit
What is the belief that European world view is superior to all others ?
Eurocentrism
The year of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas.
1492
The last government-run residential school in Canada closed its doors in ________
1996
A law that recognized only the Crown and Indigenous peoples could negotiate land, not settlers.
Royal proclamation 1763
This Métis leader founded the province of Manitoba and led two resistances.
Louis Riel
A system of government where power is shared between a central government and regional governments.
Federalism
What are the three motives for imperialism?
Gold, Glory and God
What land did Canada purchase to expand westward?
This war began in North America in 1754 and later spread to Europe and other colonies.
The Seven Year's War
Gord Downie created a fund in this boy’s name to raise awareness about residential schools.
Chanie Wenjack
This economic system is based on free markets, private ownership of business and industry, and the profit motive.
Capitalism
This imperialist phrase justified colonial rule by claiming Europeans had a moral duty to “civilize” non-European peoples.
The "White Man's Burden"