Chapter One: Canada: Date Line, 1867

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Question 1
What percentage of the Canadian population did people of French descent constitute at the time of the Confederation?
a. 25 percent
b. roughly one third
c. approximately half
d. about 15 percent

Question 2
Which of the two major parties that emerged after the Confederation favoured free trade?
a. the Liberals
b. the Clear Grits.
c. the Conservatives.
d. the parti rouge.

Question 3
John A. Macdonald favoured
a. strong municipal governments.
b. a strong central government.
c. a strong provincial government, with some areas under central control.
a federal system with federal and provincial governments holding authority in the same areas but on a different scale.

Question 4
What is meant by the term "the Great Haemorrhage"?
a. the loss of agricultural income as a result of poor crops in the 1860s
b. the public pressure to macademize all major roads before 1880
c. the sudden obsoleteness of Canadian ships after steam replaced sails as the source of energy
d. the en-masse movement of migrants to the United States

Question 5
Why did Saint John and Halifax grow slowly around the time of the Confederation?
a. There was no large local market for goods made in those cities.
b. Religious restrictions on trade stifled many merchants' attempts to compete with their counterparts from Montreal and Toronto.
c. Manufacturers faced competition from wealthier business owners in central Canada.
d. a) and c)

Question 6
In the 1860s, Ontarians
a. moved frequently from one place to another.
b. who lived on farms were generally not as well off economically as their counterparts in Quebec.
c. were, for the most part, descendants of farmers who established their farms in the 1700s.
d. lived in isolated, small towns with essentially no communication with the outside world.

Question 7
In 1867, which of the following cities was showing signs of shifting from the pre-industrial urban model to the industrial city with certain district occupied by only one economic class?
a. Montreal
b. Quebec City
c. Hamilton
d. Toronto

Question 8
In mid-nineteenth-century Canada, marriage was often
a. embarked on later in life than in Europe.
b. a communal rather than a private affair.
c. more a matter of economic security than romance.
d. all of the above.

Question 9
When did the federal government legally recognize trade unions?
a. 1858
b. 1867
c. 1872
d. 1890

Question 10
What was voluntarism?
a. the public declaration of an unmarried woman to become a nun
b. voluntary emigration to the United States
c. the legal separation of church and state, favoured by Protestants
d. the act on the part of an employer to increase workers' wages above what the law required

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