Grade 10 Social Studies Final Exam Study Notes
For the Final Exam it would be VERY WISE for you to try to know and understand the following to the best of your ability.
Geography (Chapter 1 in Horizons):
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Know the provinces and territories. How many are there? What are their names? Can you label them on a map?
Know what the 6 different Physical Regions of Canada are and be able to label them with borders on a map
Know about globalization
Know about ‘boom and bust’
Know what the difference is between latitude and longitude
Be able to explain the importance of geography when studying about people and cultures
History:
People:
Know who these people are and some basic info about them (Horizons pg. numbers beside peoples’ names; also check
the Internet if you can’t find a sufficient summary of the persons’ life in the textbook, such as in the case of Wilfred
Laurier, John A. Macdonald, Louis-Joseph Papineau, etc.):
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Crowfoot (pg. 186)
Louis Riel
Will Jackson (aka William Henry Jackson or Honore Jackson) – (pg. 182)
Poundmaker (pg. 186)
Big Bear (pg. 186)
Miles Macdonell (pgs. 144-145)
Lord Selkirk (aka Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk) – (pg. 143-144)
John Schultz (pg. 155, 158-159, 160)
William McDougall (pgs. 157-158)
Wilfred Laurier (pgs. 244-251)
Alexander Mackenzie (pgs. 195-197)
Sir Hugh Allen (pgs. 194-195)
Frederick Middleton (pg. 185)
William Wilberforce (remember the movie Amazing Grace?)
John Newton (remember the movie Amazing Grace?)
William Lyon Mackenzie (pgs. 44, 66-67, 73, 74-77, 98, 99)
Louis-Joseph Papineau (pg. 44, 70-74, 77, 99, 107)
Lord Durham (pg. 44, 78-79, 100-101)
Lord Elgin (pg. 84, 101-103)
George-Etienne Cartier (pg. 107)
James Douglas (pg. 211 and 216)
Amor de Cosmos (pg. 226)
Gabriel Dumont (pg. 170, 182, 185)
Cuthbert Grant (pgs. 145-147)
Grey Owl (pg. 96)
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William Van Horne (pg. 200)
Sanford Fleming (pg. 197, 201-202)
David Thompson (pg. 129)
Louis Pasteur (pg. 89)
David Oppenheimer (pg. 234)
Ned McGowan (pg. 215)
Joseph Howe (pg. 112)
George Brown (pg. 107)
Emily Stowe (pg. 89)
Joe Fortes (pg. 233)
Thomas Scott (pg. 159)
Queen Victoria (pg. 84, pg. 86-87)
Josiah Henson (pg. 60)
Harriet Tubman (pg. 60)
John A. MacDonald (103-104, 108, 111-112, 114-116, 156-158, 160, 166, 181, 188, 194-195, 197-198, 201, 225)
Dates:
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Canada confederation: The most significant date to remember in Socials 10! – July 1, 1867
Know the years the provinces and territories joined Canada: Newfoundland (1949), Alberta (1905), BC (1871),
Manitoba (1870), New Brunswick (1867), Nova Scotia (1867), Ontario (1867), Quebec (1867), Northwest
Territories (1870), Yukon (1898), Saskatchewan (1905), PEI (1873), Nunavut (1999)
Events:
Chapter 2
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Have a basic understanding of the Rebellions of 1837 and the results and their effects on Canada
Know about the Family Compact and the Chateau Clique
Know what a Francophone is
Know what the Underground Railway was
Chapter 3
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Understand what life was like in the Victorian era
Know about Confederation and how Canada achieved Responsible Government
Know about the Charlottetown Conference and the Quebec Conference)
Know about assimilation (what it is, how it affected Aboriginal peoples)
Chapter 4
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Know about the Fur Trade, the HBC and the NWC
Understand the basics of the life of the Metis
Know a little bit about the Selkirk Settlement
Understand the problems that the Metis had with the government in Manitoba
Understand the basics of Louis Riel’s struggles against the Canadian government while in Manitoba
Know the basics of how Manitoba became a province
Chapter 5
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Know about the Indian Act (study the PPT I posted on the blog for more info on this)
Know about paternalism (what it is and how the government dealt with First Nations peoples in a paternalistic
way)
Know the basics of the Northwest Uprising
Know the events in the life of Louis Riel (especially his trial and execution)
Learn about the construction of the CPR
Know a bit about MacDonald’s National Policy
Chapter 6
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Know the basics of the Cariboo Gold Rush and the Fraser River Gold Rush (also a bit about the Klondike Gold
Rush)
Know the basics of how British Columbia became a province
Know the basics of what Immigration was like for the Chinese and others during the 1800’s (also study the
section “The Last Best West” on pgs. 251-257 for more on immigration)
BIG QUESTIONS (think about these questions deeply as you study for the final):
1. Of all the people in Canada’s history that we have covered, who, in your opinion, is Canada’s greatest
Canadian? Study this person and consider their impact on culture, religion, politics, etc. This person
must have lived during the timeline of our course- (1810ish-1915ish).
2. Of all the events that have happened during this time period of 1810ish-1915ish, what do you think is a
defining moment in Canada’s history, besides Confederation, and why?
3. French/English relations have always been strained, and for good reasons too. Think about 3 specific
situations in Canada’s history between 1810ish-1915ish and know how to 1. describe the source of the
tension; and 2. describe how it was resolved.