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Social Studies 10 - Chapter 7 Vocab
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- 1ImperialismThe policy of extending control of a region or regions by one nation
- 2TariffA duty or tax a country charges on imports
- 3TribunalA court or board appointed to judge a particular matter
- 4SubsidyFinancial assistance granted by government in support of a business regarded as being in the public interest
- 5HinterlandThe remote and less developed area around a community
- 6Sam Steele-Enforces Canadian laws
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-against working on Sundays.
-One of the most important members of the NWMP. - 7Clifford Sifton-Become Laurier's Minister of the Interior, in charge of immigration.
-Committed to populating the area
-launched a vigorous recruitment program to lure newcomers away from cities to prairie homesteads - 8Henri BourassaFounded a newspaper (le devoir) to announce his disagreement against Laurier's naval policy
- 9Doukhobors-A group of Russians
-left their homeland because service in the army was against their religious beliefs (push factor) and they were in search of free land (pull factor) - 10DreadnoughtThe first "all-big-gun" battleship with ten 30cm guns in sturrets and a top speed of 21 knots
- 11Robert Dunsmuir-Founded Dunsmuir coal and a castle in victoria BC
-was an industrialist - 12Komagata Maru-A ship that transported 354 Sikh immigrants to Vancouver.
-Ship left Hong Kong on April 4, 1914
-Arrived in Vancouver on May 23. - 13TownshipA division of a country with some corporate powers
- 14WCTUWomen's Christian Temperance Union supported prohibition, and they supported women's suffrage because they believed most women supported prohibition.
- 15DepressionA period of low economic activity marked by high unemployment
- 16ProhibitionThe banning of the selling/consumption of alcohol
- 17SuffragistA person who advocates extending the right to vote, especially to women.
- 18TenementA crowded, usually cheap, building w/ many apartments. Often owned by a company and rented to its workers.
- 19GhettoA slum area of a city; also and area of a city inhabited by a minority group
- 20SourdoughSomeone who'd been a prospector for a long period of time
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