Rockridge Social Studies

Canada: A Birth of a Nation

• Effects of American Revolution and War of 1812

• Early Social Class Conflict

• Confederation

  • American Civil War​

  • Fenians

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Gold Rush

  • Tariffs

  • Canadian Pacific Railway

  • John A. MacDonald

Canadian Immigration

• European

• Asia / Pacific Rim

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Japan and Gentlemen's Agreement

  • Head Tax

  • Komagata Maru

  • Sikhs

• Economic and cultural challenges

 

Boer War

• Canada and British Imperialism 

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Alaskan Boundary Dispute

• Yukon Gold Rush

• Teddy Roosevelt

 

World War I (1914-1918) 

• Causes of World War I

  • Alliances

  • isms

• Nature of warfare

  • Trench

  • Gas

  • Airplanes

  • Ross Rifle

  • Machine Guns

  • Tanks

  • U-boats

• Canada's military contributions to World War I

  • Vimy ridge

  • Ypres

  • Somme

  • Passchendaele

• Development of war on the "Home Front"

  • Merchant Marines

  • Greater role for women

  • Prohibition

  • White feather campaign

  • Halifax explosion

  • Enemy Aliens

  • Patriotism

  • Industrialization

  • Conscription

    • Conscientious Objector

  • Propaganda

  • Victory Bonds 

  • War Measures Act

  • Military Voters Act

  • Wartime Elections Act 

  • Income Tax

  • Profiteering

• WWI Notables 

  • Sam Hughes

  • Billy Bishop

  • Roy Brown

  • Julian Byng

  • Arthur Currie

  • Robert Borden

  • Andrew McNaughton

• Effects of World War One on Canada

  • Canada and the Paris Peace Conference 

  • League of Nations

    • Collective Security

 

From Boom to Bust –The Interwar Period (1919-1939)

• Union / Management conflict

  • Winnipeg General Strike

  • Unionization

  • One Big Union (OBU)

    • Collective Bargaining

• Autonomy

  • Chanak Crisis

  • Balfour Report

  • Halibut Treaty

  • King-Byng crisis

    • Mackenzie King

    • Julian Byng

  • British Commonwealth

  • Statute of Westminster of 1931

• Prosperity and economic collapse

  • Reasons for prosperity

    • Agriculture boom

    • Industrial boom

  • Social and economic changes

  • Immigration

• Role of women

  • Person's Case

  • Famous Five

    • Carine Wilson

    • Emily Murphy

• Life in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s

  • Prohibition

  • Americanization

  • Radio

    • CBC Radio

  • Movies

  • Automobile

  • Assembly Line

    • Henry Ford

• Canadian / American relations

• Causes of the Great Depression

  • Business Cycle

    • Supply and Demand

    • Laissez Faire economics

  • Overproduction

  • Stock Market Crash

• Impact of the Great Depression on Canada and Canadians

  • Unemployment 

    • Mackenzie's "5 cent speech" 

  • Depression

  • Prairie drought 

    • Sand/dust storms

  • Relief Camps

    • work ("slave") camps

    • Andrew McNaughton

  • Dole

  • Tariffs

  • "Riding the Rods"

  • On-to-Ottawa Trek

    • Regina Riot

• A change in politics

  • Canadian Cooperative Federation (CCF)

    • J.S. Woodsworth Regina Manifesto

  • Union Nationale

    • Maurice Duplessis

  • Communist Party of Canada

  • Social Credit

    • William (Bible Bill) Aberhart

  • R.B. Bennett

    • New Deal

    • "Bennett Blanket"

  • Mackenzie's "Family Allowance" and "Unemployment Insurance"

• Government Intervention

  • economic regulation

  • relief payments

 

Canada and World War II (1939-1945) 

• The breakdown of peace and the road to war

• Causes of WWII

  • Appeasement

  • German aggression

• Condition of Canada's military before WWII

• Canadian military actions in World War II

  • Dieppe 

  • Invasion of Italy

    • Ortona

  • Hong Kong

  • D-Day landings

    • Juno Beach

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    • Corvettes

  • Operation Husky

  • Battle of Britain

    • Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)

    • Canadian ground crew and engineers

• Nature of warfare

  • Sonar

  • Radar

  • Convoys

• War on the "Home Front"

  • Arsenal of democracy

  • Conscription

  • Role of women

  • Propaganda

  • National Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA)

  • Pay as you go

  • This is not our war

  • Enemy aliens

  • Anti-Semitism

    • Holocaust

    • S.S. St. Louis

  • Total War

    • C.D. Howe

  • Rations

  • Camp X

  • Japanese Internment

  • French-English relations

  • Industrialization

• Canada's role in ending the war

  • Liberation of Belgium, Netherlands, and later Germany

 

Canada and the World (1945-2000)

• The Cold War

  • Igor Gouzenko

  • Canadian uranium

  • Canada's new international role

  • Middle power

  • Sphere's of influence

  • Avro Arrow

  • Canada's changing nuclear policy

  • NORAD

• Cuban missile crisis

  • John Diefenbaker 

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Canada's seats at the The United Nations' Security Council

• Peacekeeping

• Korea

  • UN Veto

• Suez Canal Crisis

  • UNEF

  • Lester Pearson (Nobel Peace Prize)

• Vietnam War

  • Canada's role​

  • "Boat People"

• Rwanda

  • Romeo Dallaire

• Serbia

  • Kosovo

  • Ethnic cleansing of Muslims

• Challenges to Canadian Identity

  • Social and cultural changes

  • Immigration

• Americanization of Canadian Culture

  • Branch plant economy

  • Television

  • Canada / US relations

  • NAFTA

  • Brain drain

• Search for Canadian identity

  • Bill of Rights

• Welfare State

  • Medicare (Tommy Douglas) 

  • Unemployment Insurance

  • Family Allowance

  • Canada Pension Plan 

• Trudeau

• Provincial Transfer (Equalization) Payments

• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and "Tied Aid"

• CBC (television) 

• Massey Commission 

• Multiculturalism Act

• Domestic issues in post war Canada 

  • Baby boom

  • Opening of north

  • Megaprojects

    • Resources exploration

    • Oil Sands

    • St. Lawrence Seaway

    • Trans Canada Highway

    • Oil pipeline

  • Economic diversification

  • CRTC

  • Canadian technology

    • Canada arm

    • Candu reactor

 

French Canadian Identity 

• The Quiet Revolution

  • Jean Lesage

  • Maitres Chez Nous

• FLQ and October Crisis

  • James Cross

  • Pierre Laporte

• Referendum and nationalism

• Montreal Expo '67

• 1995 referendum

• Parti Quebecois

  • Rene Levesque

  • Distinct Society

• Bi and Bi Commission

  • Flag debate

  • Official Languages Act

• War Measures Act

• Bill 101

• Constitutional Changes

  • British North American Act, 1867

  • "Kitchen Compromise"

  • Notwithstanding Clause

  • Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords

  • Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Amending Formula

• Separatism

  • Charles De Gaulle

  • Sovereignty Association

• La Francophonie

• Parti Québecois

  • Rene Levesque

• Bloc Québecois

  • Lucien Bouchard

 

First Nations

• Land claims and treaties

• Self-government

• Assimilation and integration

• Indian Act

• Residential schools

• Aboriginal Rights

• Status

• Nisga's Treaty

  • Aboriginal Title

• Creation of Nunavut

The Global Village

• Marshall McClulan

• Interdependence

 

Population

• Demography

• Density

• Distribution

• Pyramids

• Cohorts

• Demographic Transition Model and stages

• Doubling Time

• Dependency Ratio

• Fertility Rate

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Rule of Seventy

• China's one-child policy

 

Living Standards

• Disparities

• Human Development Index

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

• Per captia GDP

• Patterns of world food production and distribution

• Distribution of wealth

• Technology "have" or "have-not" nations

• Developing countries

  • Least Developed Countries (LDC)

  • Poverty Debt

• Roles of World Bank and International Monetary Fund

• Developed countries

  • Newly Developed (industrialized) Countries

• Hunger / Poverty cycle

• Diseases

  • AIDS 

 

Urbanization

• Problems of the modern city

• Forces that lead to urbanization

• Competition for land use

• Impact of urbanization 

• Resources issues

  • Renewable and non-renewable

 

Global Solutions

• International Aid

• Canada and International Aid

  • CIDA

  • Controversy over Aid (Tied Aid)

• Debt relief

• Globalization

The Constitution

• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Balance between rights and responsibilities of citizens

  • Mobility Rights

  • Equality Rights

  • Legal Rights

  • Fundamental Freedoms

• British North America Act, 1867

• Constitution Act, 1982

• Written versus Unwritten constitutions

 

Structure of Canada's Government 

• Direct versus representative democracy

• Levels of government

  • Federal

  • Provincial

  • Municipal

• House of Commons and Senate

• Structures

  • Head of State 

  • Governor General

  • Prime Minister

  • Cabinet

• Passing Bills into Laws

  • First, Second, and Third Readings

  • Parliamentary committees

• Three Branches of Government

  • Executive

  • Legislative

  • Judicial

• Free Vote 

• People, their roles and Parliamentary Procedure

  • Sessions of Parliament

  • Governor General

    • Royal Assent

  • Prime Minister

    • patronage appointments

    • judicial and senatorial appointments

• Member of Parliament (MP's) - Federal

• Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA's) - Provincial

• Senate

  • "Sober second thought"

• Speaker of the House

• Cabinet

• Backbencher

• Private Member's Bill

• Official Opposition

  • shadow cabinet

• Question Period

• Hansard

• Speech from the throne

• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

• Cabinet Solidarity

• Crown Corporations

• Lobbyists

• Caucus

 

Canada's major federal political parties

Liberal Party

Conservative Party 

New Democratic Party

Bloc Quebecois

Green Party

 

Elections

• Elections at different levels

  • Federal, Provincial, Municipal

• First past the post system

• Proportional representation

• Voter eligibility

• Chief Electoral Officer

• Scrutineer

• Nomination

• Tabulation

• Campaigns

• Election Writ

 

Ideologies / Political spectrum 

• Where the political parties fall on the spectrum