Below are some possible topics for the essay portion of your final. Write each title on separate page, and add notes.
The Ministry of Education site has 3 practice exams and detailed notes for essay questions 1 - 6. You much agree to the copyright terms - and choose grade 11 and social studies - and GET EXAMS
Good luck and make sure you return your textbook to me before your final on Friday, June 20/08. Get to school at 8:30 a.m., as your exam starts at 9:00 a.m.
- Mr. Jovanovic
(more: video clips to help you ; course overview)
- 1 - Identify the external and internal events that have created Canadian identity/independence.
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- 2 - Describe relationship between French and English Canadians throughout 20th century.
- WWI/WWII â conscription â anti conscription riots 1918 (WWI)
- Quebeckers resented conscription â felt no ties to Britain
- Union Nationale â French Canadian Party
- Quiet Revolution (1960's) modernize Quebec â less church influence, stronger more independent economy
- Lévesque's forms PQ (very nationalist)
- FLQ â terrorist group â mailboxes to the kidnapping of James Cross and Pierre LaPorte. Trudeau responds with War Measures Act (Oct crisis, 1970)
- PQ pushes for referendum to be independent (1980)
- The Night of Long Knives â Quebeckers (Levesque) feel betrayed
- Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accord
- 1995 Referendum
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- 3 - Outline the development of the Canadian welfare state.
- Rise of unions in 1920's (OBU) demanding better working conditions
- CCF party forms during depression
- Goal - to help - provide more services
- Relief camps/pogey (Bennett) to help with the Great Depression
- Tommy Douglas (CCF/NDP) Premier of Saskatchewan - first to introduce Medicare program
- Prime Minister Pearson credited with nation wide health care and Canadian Pension Plan (CCP)
- Veterans Land Act (after WWII) gave benefits to war veterans
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- 4 - Describe the successes and setbacks of racial intolerance throughout 20th century.
- Aboriginals - pushed to reserves and sent to residential school (assimilation policy)
- Federal Indian Act â government controls lives
- Didn't get the vote until 1960
- OKA Crisis - frustrations turned into violent protest/blockade over golf course on burial grounds (1990)
- Early 1900's - Chinese Head Tax
- Restricted immigration for non-Europeans (Chinese Exclusion Act)
- Japanese Canadians were rounded up after Pearl Harbor (Dec 1941) and sent to interment camps, property seized (apology)
- Positives?
- Immigration policies changed in the 1960's
- Trudeau introduced "multiculturalism" in 1971
- Residential schools were closed (Apology)
- Greater tolerance
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- 5 - Identify key environmental concerns and then outline how Canadians can reduce impact , ( consider land, water and atmosphere) *Include use of protest/pressure groups.(education) (Government approach to Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development)
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- 6 - How successful has the United Nations been with respect to preventing/resolving wars, preventing the spread of disease and/or famine, encouraging friendly relations between countries and developing human rights on a global scale. *Be sure to understand levels of intervention against aggression and organizations to deal with humanitarian side.
- Replaced League of Nations
- Canada - original member
- 2 parts to the UN
- Stop aggression
- Talks to condemn
- Embargoes
- Military intervention
- Peacekeeping a large part
- Help people
- World Bank
- WHO (World Health Organization
- IMF (loans, etc)
- created Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Successes: lots of aid food, medical to children or areas hit by natural disasters
- Did push back aggressors in Korean War (1950's)
- Did push Iraq out of Kuwait in Gulf War (1990's)
- Did put pressure on South Africa to end Apartheid
Failures â was unable to keep peace during the Korean War
- Unsuccessful in Somalia and other parts of Africa
- Bosnia unsuccessful â Genocide took place
- Darfur unsuccessful â doing little as Genocide is occurring there today
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- 7 - Describe Canada' role in the world arena to solving problems, whether war, poverty, etc.
- Chose to join WW II to stop aggression
- Borden won a seat at the Paris Peace Conference (after WWII) and a place in the League of Nations â goal â collective security
- Canada joined the UN â has been member of the security council many times
- Pearson mediated Suez Canal crisis of 1956 - plus proposed Peacekeepers as a part of the UN - Canada has since been the only country to be involved in every peacekeeping mission
- Canada joined NATO (military alliance) to stop spread of communism
- The Commonwealth and La Francophonie
- Former colonies helping other poor former colonies
- Trudeau - "Middle Power" work to improve east-west relations and bridge gap between wealth North and poor South
- CIDA - Canadian agency that helps developing nations
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- 8 - Understand Canada's political and legal system.
- How Canadians Govern Themselves (download)
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- 9 - Famous/Influential Canadian Women
- Nellie McClung - suffragist - Pushed for right to vote â by 1918 (end of WWI) Canadian women able to vote. * Role in the war.
- Agnes McPhail - 1st woman in the House of Commons (1921)
- Emily Murphy (part of 'famous 5') push for recognition of women and 'persons' (1929)
- Emily Carr - famous artist
- Irene Murdoch
- Rosemary Brown
- Kim Campbell - 1st and only female Prime Minister (for a short time, but still a landmark)
