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Chapter 1
must know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| suffragists | a group of women who want the right to vote |
| Nellie McClung | a well known suffragist campaigned for women's rights |
| Anne of Green Gables | the much-loved romantic novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada started to become more urbanized in its literature and art) |
| Alaska Boundary Dispute | the dispute over the Alaska Boundary which the British negotiated an agreement that favoured the US and Canada |
| imperialists | people who shared the dreams of expanding the empire throughout the world by taking over new territories |
| nationalists | people who have strong feeling attachment to his/her nation |
| ethnocentric | believing their own race or group is superior |
| discrimination & racism | Asian immigrants suffered from discrimination and racism |
| Komagata Maru | the ship carring mostly Sikhs from East Indian was forced to return to Indian from Vancouver, when its passengers were refused entry into Canada |
| Chinese Head Tax | every Chinese person immigrating to Canada had to pay the government a 50$ fee in 1885(increased later) |
| residential schools | schools for Aboriginal children run by the churches |
| assimilation | the policy of the federal government which was intended to make Aboriginal people abandon their culture and become part of the European way of life |
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