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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved The Wild West The Railway Macdonald’s National Policy Canada Grows! Vocab Mixed Bag $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Round 2 Final Jeopardy Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Before becoming Alberta and Saskatchewan, the land occupied by these provinces were part of THIS territory.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is the North-West Territories? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Because of the illegal whiskey trade, noisy parties and violence, the area around Cypress Hills became known as this.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Whoop Up country? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This police force was established by PM Macdonald in response to the Cypress Hills massacre.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is the North West Mounted Police? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 These people were sent to mark the boarder between Canada and the U.S. using posts and mounds of dirt. (What is the name of their job?)
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are surveyors? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This Metis man, whose name is famous in Lethbridge, worked as a guide and interpreter for the NWMP.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Who is Jerry Potts? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Canada encouraged these immigrants, because they would do the dangerous work of building the railway through the mountains, and would do it for less pay.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who are the Chinese? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Canada had two choices of routes for a railway: a northern route through Edmonton, or a southern route through Calgary. In the end, surveyors decided on this route.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the Southern Route? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Building the railway helped the economy in Lethbridge, because miners here could provide this natural resource as a source of fuel.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is coal? Scores
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$400 This term refers to a railway or highway that crosses from one side of a continent to the other.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is transcontinental? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This is the name of the company responsible for building Canada’s first railway across the country.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is the Canadian Pacific Railway? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The immigration policy was designed to bring immigrants to western Canada to do this.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is farm? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 In 1872, if you were a man over the age of 21, you could buy a quarter-section of farmland in western Canada for this much money.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is $10. Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Refugees from this island nation moved to Canada to farm following a volcano eruption in their homeland.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Iceland? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 To encourage people to buy goods manufactured in Canada, Macdonald put this kind of tax on goods entering from the U.S.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is a protective tariff? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This religious group doesn’t believe in fighting in wars, and so left Russia to farm in Canada.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Who are Mennonites? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Discovery of this mineral brought people by the thousands to British Columbia.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is gold? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Before joining Confederation, the people of PEI wanted a guarantee of this service to help connect them to the mainland.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is steamboat ferry service? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 These two provinces were created at the same time in 1905.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What are Alberta and Saskatchewan? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This last province to join Confederation finally became part of Canada in 1949, in part to secure more social services and a more stable economy.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Newfoundland? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The flag of Canada’s most recent territory, Nunavut, features these two symbols.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is an inukshuk and the North Star? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 A process by which a culture is absorbed into a more dominant culture.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is assimilation? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 A major political subdivision that shares power with the federal government.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is a province? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 A person who searches for precious metals.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is a prospector? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 An economy with many types of industry.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is a diverse economy? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 A public vote on an issue.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is a referendum? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Lumber, oil, wheat, and other parts of nature that people can use are referred to as this.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What are natural resources? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 G.S. Lakie Middle School is an example of this type of school system.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is public? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This type of school is funded by parents through tuition fees.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is private? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 One of the reasons Canada built a railway through the mountains was to get this province to join Confederation.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is British Columbia? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The Confederation Bridge joins PEI to this maritime province.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is New Brunswick? Scores