Grade 8 Social Studies
Review
Chapter One: History and The
Historian
Chapter 2: The People Who Lived
Here
This is made up of major events
and experiences in your life that
shape you and your memories.
 Collective Past
Give an example of individual past.
 Diary
 Souvenirs
 Childhood photo
 Family heirlooms
 Autobiography/biography
 Family tree
The history of a people.
 Collective Past
Give an example of collective past.
 Stories told by relatives
 Books/texts
 Movies
A method of looking for evidence to
answer questions that are posed.
 Historical Method
List the 4 steps of the Historical
Method
 Pose a good historical question
 Collect reliable information
 Organize and evaluate information
 Interpret information and present
conclusions
A first-hand account made at
the time that an event occurs.
 Primary Source
List 5 sources of information.
 Libraries and museums
 Archives
 Monuments
 Historic sites
 Internet
 Oral history
 Literary and artistic expressions
Where did the Beothuk live in
Newfoundland?
 Avalon Peninsula
 St. Georges Bay
 Bonavista Peninsula
 Red Indian Lake
Cone-shaped tent, covered in birch
bark an in the winter insulated with
moss
 Mamateek
Five reasons Beothuk became
extinct
 Loss of land (Europeans and Mi,kmaq)
 Starvation
 Lack of authority
 Diseases (TB)
 Conflict/violence
Mi,kmaq word for Newfoundland
meaning land across the water.
 Ktaqmkuk
The way a person or group lives.
 Lifestyle
An interpretation of an event based
on information gathered from
primary sources.
 Secondary Source
What are the 4 groups of
Europeans that came to
Newfoundland
 Scottish
 English
 French
 Irish
Reasons why people chose to
leave their place of origin are called
 Push factors
Reasons why people chose to
move to a particular destination are
called
 Pull factors
Explain why the Irish came to
Newfoundland.
 Migratory fishery
 Poverty
 Religious discrimination
 Rapid population increase
 Crop failures
Explain why the English came to
Newfoundland.
 Maintain migratory fishing premises
 Did not want to risk ocean travel in fear of
attacks from the French Navy
Explain why the Scottish came to
Newfoundland.
 Fish trade and sealing industry
 Railway
 Farming
Explain why the French came to
Newfoundland.
 Farming and fishery
Where did the English settle?
 Bonavista to St. Anthony
 St. George’s Bay
 Bay of Islands
 Bonne Bay
 Southern Labrador
Where did the French settle?
 St. George’s Bay, mostly on the Port au
Port Peninsula
 Codroy Valley due to good climate
Where did the Irish settle?
 St. John’s to Placentia Bay
 Conception bay
 Fogo Island
Where did the Scottish settle?
 Labrador (worked with HBC)
 Codroy Valley and St George’s Bay
 St John’s, Conception Bay, Trinity Bay,
and Bonavista Bay
What types of work did the English
do when they settled in
Newfoundland?
 Fishery as fishermen, employees of
merchants, boat owners
What types of work did the French
do when they settled in
Newfoundland?
 Farming
 Fishery
What types of work did the Irish do
when they settled in
Newfoundland?
 Fishery (summer)
 Seal industry (winter)
 Boatbuilding industry (winter)
What types of work did the Scottish
do when they settled in
Newfoundland?
 Scottish merchants became involved in
the fish trade and sealing industry
 Railway
 Farmers
 HBC
What are 2 other groups that
immigrated to Newfoundland?
 Lebanese
 Chinese
Who is Bishop Michael Fleming?
 Irish immigrant from County Tipperary,
Ireland
What was his biggest
accomplishment and why did he do
it?
 Construction of Basilica
 Wanted to build “a temple superior to any
other on the island”
When population increases due to
there being more births than deaths
and higher rated of immigration
than emigration this is called:
 Natural Increase
To move from place to place within
Newfoundland is called:
 Internal migration