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Frage | Antworten |
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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