Final Review Material...

Here's the last of our review stuff... just in time for the exam. Study hard!

Mini-Unit I: Aboriginal Issues:

1. Define Assimilation. Identify and explain five specific examples of aboriginal assimilation seen in Canadian history.

2. What were residential schools? Explain in detail.

3. What was the Oka Crisis. Explain in detail what happened at the Oka confrontation. How does this event express the relations between Canada and Aboriginal communities throughout history?

Mini-Unit II: Canadian Government:

4. Define Federalism.

5. Describe the division of power and responsibility in the various levels of the Canadian government, providing examples where possible.

6. Be able to Explain structure of the Canadian Government.

7. Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?

Mini-Unit III: Modern Canadian Issues:

8. Identify and explain at least four examples of where conflict or misunderstanding between English and French Canadians is seen in Canadian history.

9. What was the FLQ Crisis – Identify the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and be able to explain the historical significance of this event.

10. Who was Pierre Elliot Trudeau? Why was he such an important and controversial Canadian figure? Explain in detail some of the controversial political moves that Pierre Elliot Trudeau made.

11. Who is Rene Levesque? How did sovereignty-association differ from separation?

12. What was the Quebec Referendums – When did they occur? What were they? What were the results of the referendums? Why were they significant in Canadian History?

In addition, you will be required to know the importance of the following terms:

Quiet Revolution
Lord Durham
Indian Act
Battle of Ypres
Stock Market Crash
NATO
Charlottetown Accord
Official Languages Act
Brian Mulroney
Cold War
Filles de Roi
Nellie McClung
Valour Road
Free Trade Agreement
Meech Lake Accord
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Iron Curtain
Lester B Pearson
D- Day
Gold Rush
Mercantilism
HBC
Louisbourg
Conscription
Treaty of Versailles
Sterling Lyon
Paul Henderson

Your Task...

You are to write a 5 page term paper. It is to be double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point type with standard margins in APA style. It will include a reference page that will have a minimum of 7 sources. The reference page and your title page DO NOT count as part of the total (Duh).

Your paper MUST cover some aspect of the Trudeau/Mulroney era. It may be one of the assignments listed below or you may submit your own essay topic. If you choose the latter, you must have my approval by Friday, June 10, 2011.

The deadline for this paper is Thursday, June 16, 2011.

You have the remainder of the class time in the semester to work on it. Go to it.


1. Discuss how either Brian Mulroney or Pierre Trudeau are the most influential prime ministers of the 20th century.

2. Compare and contrast Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney in terms of their impact on Canada and the changes that they precipitated.

3. Trudeau and Mulroney had very different approaches to dealing with Quebec and the provincial/federal powers. In retrospect, was either of their methods more desirable?

4. Would Canada be better off if Newfoundland had passed Meech Lake?

5. Would Canada be better off if Trudeau had found a way to include Quebec as a signatory to the Constitution?

6. Was Trudeau justified in using the War Measures Act in the FLQ crisis?

Or....

Bring me a topic.