Grade 8 History Unit Test

Front 1

Definition Civil War

Back 1

A war between people in the same country

Hint 1

It happened in America and had nothing to do with Canada or Britain Britain supported the southern States which did not make for two very popular with the northern states this worried Canada

Front 2

The Northwest Mounted Police

Back 2

Of course that's duty was to keep peace prevent crime and catch criminals. Also the Northwest Mounted Police had to look after 6 million kilometers squared in thousands of people with only 300 policeman

Front 3

Fort whoop up

Back 3

A place nicknamed Fort whoopup was the center of Allah activity of illegal whiskey trade

Front 4

Cypress hill massacre

Back 4

American wolf hunters thought assiniboine in the cypress hills stole a horse so they killed 36 people it ended up that the horse had just wandered away

Hint 4

"Where did the horse go?"

Front 5

Define pentiton

Back 5

Is a formal request to and authority for rights privileges or other benefits

Front 6

Define militia

Back 6

They were citizens trained to defend the country and fight as an army ( according to Mr Dunlop in cartoons are usually displayed as a mob with pitchforks)

Hint 6

Front 7

Define gatling gun

Back 7

a hand cranked gun with a 6 barrels revolving around a central shaft it was a first machine gun

Front 8

High treason

Back 8

High treason is what pound of maker was convicted of in his trial high treason is against one's government ruler or state I could not be translated so he was told that he was convicted of knocking off the Queen's bonnet

Front 9

Plea of insanity

Back 9

Please sanity to the course so to say you don't know what you're doing so punishment is a lighter as you were not in a healthy state of mind

Front 10

Nomadic

Back 10

Nomadic native Canadians follow their food they have no permanent residence

Front 11

Red River cart

Back 11

Are cars made out of wood and pulled by oxen sometimes connected to other cards to form a train

Front 12

Pemmican

Back 12

Dried buffalo meat mixed with fat and Berry

Hint 12

Edible

Front 13

National Committee of the Metis

Back 13

A group created to protect native land and interest

Front 14

Provisional government

Back 14

Created by Louis Riel to replace the HBC rule

Front 15

Metis bill of Rights

Back 15

Request of the metis sent to Ottawa. Basically their demands for Confederation

Front 16

Pacific Scandal

Back 16

Papers stolen from sir HughAllan they were given to opposition Liberal Party live said the papers proved a bribe was given to the Macdonald government from Allen and friends

Front 17

A bribe

Back 17

A sum of money often, but a bride is when you give something to someone and expect something in return if you do not expect something in return usually its a donation

Hint 17

Come on this is easy

Front 18

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Back 18

The company that made the railway invented it

Front 19

The national policy?

Back 19

Keep cheaper American goods out of Canada. Encourage Canadians to buy Canadian goods. Fill the prairie land with settlers. Settlers buy goods from East Canada let them cell agricultural products to East Canada to encourage Railway.

Front 20

Navvies

Back 20

The name of the workers who worked on the railway

Front 21

Spikers

Back 21

People who hammered the track

Front 22

Trestle

Back 22

Is a framework used as a Bridge to support the railway tracks

Front 23

The colonist car

Back 23

The colonists car is what poor settlers stayed on on the train

Front 24

What does NWMP stand for?

Back 24

Northwest Mounted Police

Front 25

What was John a McDonalds solution for the lack of law and illegal alcohol trade

Back 25

Northwest Mounted Police

Front 26

List what you think the main duties of the Northwest Mounted Police would be

Back 26

The main ones with me keep the peace, prevent crime, catch criminals. The ones we thought of as a class or keep the peace prevent crime catch criminals enforce law represent government befriend aboriginals

Front 27

Which government in Canada looks after the following automobile licenses

Back 27

Provincial

Front 28

Which government in Canada looks after goods and service tax GST

Back 28

Federal

Front 29

Which government in Canada looks after sales tax

Back 29

Provincial

Front 30

Which Canadian government looks after each of the following immigration to Canada

Back 30

Federal

Front 31

Which government in Canada looks after immigration to Canada

Back 31

Federal

Front 32

Which government in Canada looks after penitentiaries

Back 32

Federal

Front 33

Z which government in Canada looks after Ontario Provincial Police

Back 33

Provincial. Obviously

Front 34

Which government and Canada looks after Algonquin Park

Back 34

Federal

Front 35

Which government in Canada looks after customs

Back 35

Federal

Front 36

Which government looks after income tax

Back 36

Both federal and provincial

Front 37

Which government looks after Veterans

Back 37

Federal

Front 38

Which government looks after Canadian Embassies in other countries

Back 38

Federal

Front 39

Which Canadian government looks after the restructuring of hospitals

Back 39

Provincial

Front 40

Which Canadian government looks after land transfer tax

Back 40

Provincial

Front 41

What government in Canada looks after universities

Back 41

Provincial

Front 42

What government in Canada looks after the armies

Back 42

Federal

Front 43

What is the provincial government in charge of

Back 43

Things in the province

Front 44

What does the federal government look after

Back 44

Things in the country

Front 45

What does the provincial government look after what does the federal government look after do they look after the same things

Back 45

The provincial government looks after the province while the federal government looks after the country they are not the same