Name:___________________________
Social Studies 7 Final Exam Review for 2015
Part B and C – June 15-17 In class
Part A June 23rd, 2015 at 1pm
Your final will consist of three parts:
Part A: T/F and Multiple Choice /75
Part B: Source Analysis/ Short Answer /25
Part C: Long Answer /10
Your SS 7 final will cover material we have learned throughout the entire year:
 Key aspects to the three aboriginal tribes we have discussed: Mi’ kmaq, Anishinabe,
Haudenosaunee
o Key terms
o Key aspects
o Economic structures
o Social structures (decision making)
 All the different councils
o Roles of men and women
o Land
 Similarities and differences
 How each group viewed land
o Similarities and differences; compare and contrast
o Geography/land and their views/impact
 Shawnadithit
 Exploration
o Explorers
 Samuel de Champlain
 Jacques Cartier
 Christopher Columbus
o Northwest Passage (who sailed it?) (what was it?)
o Technology
o The goal of exploration
o Where did Christopher Columbus Land?
o Push Pull Factors in exploration
o Sequence of explorers landing in North America
o Remember the talk we had with “hat craze”
Name:___________________________
 Imperialism
o What was it
o Its significance in North America
o How did Europeans claim land?
o How did Europeans view the land?
o Impact of colonization on First Nations
o European perspective of First Nations
o What was first Contact like between First nation and Europeans?
 As the years went on, what was it like?
 France and Britain’s first contact in the New World
o Their views of
 Land
 First nations peoples
 Where were each of their trading strategies at first
 Then what were they like as the years went on
 Acadia
o Its significance
o Who was in control of this area
 New France
o Farming vs. Fur Trade
 Metis women
o Roles and responsibilities
o What were their interactions like with Europeans
 Role of missionaries and missions (what were they?) (what did they do?)
 Loyalists
o Who were they?
o What happened to them?
o Why were they significant
o After coming and settling in Canada what did they want?
o What did the Loyalist in Quebec and St. John River want?
 Constitutional Act of 1791
o What was it
o What did it have?
o How were aspects of the act set up?
Name:___________________________
 Ie. Boarders, laws, rights
 War of 1812
o What was it?
o Why was it significant?
o What happened?
o What started it?
 The great deportation
o What was it?
o Its significance
o Acadians
o What lead to the deportation of the Acadians
 The Great Migration
o How did the American War of Independence play a role in this?
 What were the Americans fighting against?
o Who came during the Great Migration and why?
o “Freedom and a Farm” – this was for?
 Different styles of government (you should know: What each style is like? Which
country had this style of government?)
o Republic
o Colonial
o Democratic
o Monarchy
 Rebellion Losses Bill
o What was it?
o How was it viewed by different parties?
 British North America
o What was it like before and after it became the BNA
 Ie. French and British relations; Language; Style of government
 Confederation
o The four key players (views and positions on confederation)
 John A. Macdonald
 George-Etienne Cartier
 George Brown
 Etienne-Paschal Tache
Name:___________________________
o Key Issues of Confederation
o British North American Act
 What was it?
 What did it offer/do?
o Importance of confederation
o First Nations View of Confederation
o Railroads
o The views and road to confederation for the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland) and British Columbia.
 Why did these areas join Confederation?
What did they receive? (What was the Canadian Government offering and
why?)
o Charles Tupper (Nova Scotia) and Confederation
o British Columbia and Aboriginal right to land
 Canada East Vs. Canada West
o Know the characteristics of these two areas?
 Ie. Language, farming, population
 Rupert’s Land
o Its significance
o The role it played with the Metis
o Who owned it?
 Metis
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Buffalo
Land speculators
Living in South Branch – what was it like?
Louis Riel
 Who was he?
 His significance
Provisional government
What happened to them
Alberta and Metis
Alberta and Metis right to land
 Manitoba Act
o What was it?
o Why did it change?
Name:___________________________
 Key terms, events and people
o Commission
o Economic competition (in relation to the fur trade)
o Dodems
o Lacrosse
o Protocols
o Imperialism
o Sieur de Monts
o “Father of New France”
o Mercantilism
o Filles du roi – what was he provided with from the king of France?
o Sovereign Council
o “winning” in reference to economic competition
o Oath of neutrality
o Oath of allegiance
o Treaty of Paris
o Treaty of Utrecht
o Pontiac
o Minweweh
o Grand River
o Red River
o Tecumseh
o Yankee
o Family Compact
o Loyalists
o Canadiens
o Reformers
o Patriot
o Industrial Revolution
o Cholera
o Demographic change
o Act of Union
o Voting/elect
o Political Deadlock
o Script
o Representative government
o Democracy
o American Annexation