Rockridge Social Studies
the history place
Road to Confederation and World War One
George Santayana
Old World / New World
Fenians
Manifest Destiny
Reciprocity Treaty
Confederation
Canadian Pacific Railway
Nationalism
Wilfrid Laurier
Imperialism
Boer
Dutch East India Company
South Africa
Orange Free State
Transvaal
Uitlanders
Jameson Raid
Spion Kop
Blockhouses
Concentration Camps
Alaskan Boundary Dispute
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Alaskan panhandle
Arms Race
Clifford Sifton
"Stalwart" Immigrants
The Last Best West
Charles Saunders
Marquis wheat
Red Fife wheat
"The Undesirables"
Yellow Peril
Asiatic Exclusion League Chinese
Head Tax
Gentleman's Agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act
Frank Oliver
The "Brown Invasion"
Continuous Passage Law
Komagata Maru
Dreadnought
HMCS Rainbow
"Tin Pot" Navy
Naval Service Bill
Militarism
Franz Joseph
Franz Ferdinand
Nicholas II
"Sick Man of Europe"
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Wllhelm II
Congress of Vienna
Gavrilo Princip
Black Hand
Entente Cordiale
Schlieffen Plan
Helmuth von Moltke
Franco-Prussian War
Prime Minister Robert Borden
Concepts to Understand
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Why study history?
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What were the major causes or forces that drove the provinces of British North America to join Confederation to create Canada?
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Why was it important for Clifford Sifton, to settle the West?
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What larger impact did Saunders have on Canada?
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What were some of the ways in which Canada tried to exclude the "undesirables"?
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What impact did the Boer war have on Canada?
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Why did Britain choose to side with America instead of Canada during the Alaskan Boundary Dispute?
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Understand the causes of the First World War.