Canadian History Exam Review Questions With Complete Solutions

Head Tax correct answer: the fee that Chinese immigrants were required to pay when they entered Canada Residential Schools correct answer: Aboriginal children were forced to attended these, where teachers would try to assimilate children into the Western culture. Many students suffered extreme emotional or physical abuse while at these places. Nellie McClung correct answer: a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Suffrage correct answer: Right to vote Prohibition correct answer: A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages Great Depression correct answer: The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s Bennet Buggies correct answer: Car with its engine taken out and pulled by horses Triple Alliance correct answer: An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. Triple Entente correct answer: An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. Nationalism correct answer: A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country Militarism correct answer: A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war Imperialism correct answer: A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. Vimy Ridge correct answer: A successful battle of World War One where four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time. Buying on Credit correct answer: people would purchase things and make partial payments on set intervals: installment plans, led to a lot of debt Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand correct answer: A short term cause of the war, when Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by Serbian Nationalists (Rebels), The Black Hand