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Flashcards by MikeyLoukas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by MikeyLoukas
almost 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Imperialism | The policy of extending control of a region or regions by one nation |
| Tariff | A duty or tax a country charges on imports |
| Tribunal | A court or board appointed to judge a particular matter |
| Subsidy | Financial assistance granted by government in support of a business regarded as being in the public interest |
| Hinterland | The remote and less developed area around a community |
| Sam Steele | -Enforces Canadian laws - -against working on Sundays. -One of the most important members of the NWMP. |
| Clifford 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 |
| Henri Bourassa | Founded a newspaper (le devoir) to announce his disagreement against Laurier's naval policy |
| Doukhobors | -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) |
| Dreadnought | The first "all-big-gun" battleship with ten 30cm guns in sturrets and a top speed of 21 knots |
| Robert Dunsmuir | -Founded Dunsmuir coal and a castle in victoria BC -was an industrialist |
| Komagata Maru | -A ship that transported 354 Sikh immigrants to Vancouver. -Ship left Hong Kong on April 4, 1914 -Arrived in Vancouver on May 23. |
| Township | A division of a country with some corporate powers |
| WCTU | Women's Christian Temperance Union supported prohibition, and they supported women's suffrage because they believed most women supported prohibition. |
| Depression | A period of low economic activity marked by high unemployment |
| Prohibition | The banning of the selling/consumption of alcohol |
| Suffragist | A person who advocates extending the right to vote, especially to women. |
| Tenement | A crowded, usually cheap, building w/ many apartments. Often owned by a company and rented to its workers. |
| Ghetto | A slum area of a city; also and area of a city inhabited by a minority group |
| Sourdough | Someone who'd been a prospector for a long period of time |
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