Social Studies Test

Canada Past and Present

Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________________________
Knowledge and Understanding

1) ______ The Father of New France.

a) Furs

2) ______ Active participants in the fur trade.

b) Conductors

3) ______ People who guided blacks along

the underground railroad.

c) Aboriginals and Europeans

d) Identity

4) ______ Several cultural or ethnic groups

within a society.

e) Chinese Head Tax

5) ______ The way a country represents itself,

and the way it is represented by
others.

g) Multicultural

6) ______ Women who were recruited by the

French government to marry and
settle in Canada.

f) Coureur de Bois
h) Samuel de Champlain
i) Les Filles du Roi
j) Segregation
.

7) ______ A fee used to limit the number of

Chinese coming to Canada.
8) ______ These men decided to go inland
and get furs for themselves.
9) ______ Europeans discovered that great
wealth could be made by selling
______ in Europe.
10) ______ The act of setting someone apart
because of their race or culture.
.

11) Which of the following make a country's identity?

a) traditions
b) symbols
c) history
d) all of the above
.

12) Which of the following is not one of the three main communities today?
a) subrural
b) rural
c) suburban
d) urban
.

13) How long ago was the first African arrival in Canada?
a) 300 years ago
b) 700 years ago
c) 250 years ago
d) 400 years ago
.

14) The development of Hudson's Bay Company was important to Canada's Fur trade because:
a) It gave the company control of all the trade in the territories drained by rivers flowing into the
bay
b) It led to less trading in the Hudson's Bay area
c) It helped with the development of trade surrounding Lake Ontario
d) It was a new route to Asia
.

15) When the loyalists were settling in St. Anne's, why did many people not survive the winter?
a) there was a shortage of food and supplies
b) the temperatures were unusually warm
c) the winter came early
d) both a. and c.
.

16) Without _______ and ________ the fur trade would not have been possible.
a) Coureur de Bois and Filles de Roi
b) Coureur de Bois and Europeans
c) Europeans and Aboriginals
d) Samuel de Champlain and Harriet Tubman
.

Communication
17) List two of the three main types of communities and give an example for each.

18) What are some reasons that brought European explorers to Canada?

19) Discuss the meaning and the significance of "Ethnic Enclave" and provide an example.

20) Why was Harriet Tubman so significant?

21) What impact did the fur trade have on First Nations people?

Application
22) Discuss in detail an early explorer of your choice, and their contribution to Canada's heritage
and identity.

23) What reasons did various people have for immigrating to New France? What are some reasons
people continue to come to Canada today?

24) Discuss how the people of Canada respoded to the arrival of immigrants from China.

25) Create a chart to compare the lives of the First Nations people before and after they made
contact with the Europeans.