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Question 1What is the name for laws and programs such as minimum wage, a standard work week, and unemployment insurance? Guaranteed benefits Social safety net Unemployment insurance is now called employment insurance Guaranteed prosperity Question 2What is the name of the movement that worked for women to be able to vote? Women's Voting movement Votes for All movement Voting movement Suffrage movement Question 3Whom did Ottawa intern in labour camps from 1914 to 1920? Enemy soldiers Canadians of Japanese origin Canadians who disagreed with the war Former Austro-Hungarian subjects Question 4What year did Yukon Territory join Confederation? 1905 1873 1898 1880 Question 5Where did Canadians lead an unsuccessful raid in the Second World War? Dieppe Normandy Pas de Calais Paris Question 6When Riel and the Metis seized Fort Garry, how did Ottawa respond? Ottawa sent soldiers to retake Fort Garry Ottawa immediately started negotiations with the Metis Ottawa debated for many months about what to do next Ottawa struck a Royal Commission Question 7What was the Royal Canadian Navy's "finest hour"? Just after the Second World War The Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Pacific The Northern Battles Question 8What was the "Head Tax"? A tax that everybody had to pay to the federal government to pay for the Canadian Pacific Railway A tax that was put on every head of lettuce that was imported from the USA A tax that Chinese people had to pay if they wanted to immigrate to Canada A tax that all American travellers had to pay to travel through Canada to get to Alaska Question 9When did Riel's second rebellion take place? 1885 1869 1890 1880 Question 10What was the main job of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War? Protecting all of North America from attack Building troop-carrying ships Protecting convoys of merchant ships Stopping whales from interfering with heavy shipping Question 11What is the common name for the South African War? Southy War Boer War The Battle of Paadeberg South African Conflict Question 12Who wrote the famous war poem, "In Flanders Fields"? Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Sir Arthur Currie Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry James Nielle Question 13What was the date that most Canadian women over the age of 21 were granted the vote in federal elections? 1938 1918 1922 1916 Question 14In what year were the Arctic Islands transferred to the Northwest Territories? 1873 1898 1880 1905 Question 15What two things did the government do to Canadians of Japanese origin during the Second World War? Took their jobs and made them speak only English Made it illegal to speak Japanese, and made men join the army Took their Japanese books and made them learn English Sold their possessions and moved them to camps against their will
What is the name for laws and programs such as minimum wage, a standard work week, and unemployment insurance?
What is the name of the movement that worked for women to be able to vote?
Whom did Ottawa intern in labour camps from 1914 to 1920?
What year did Yukon Territory join Confederation?
Where did Canadians lead an unsuccessful raid in the Second World War?
When Riel and the Metis seized Fort Garry, how did Ottawa respond?
What was the Royal Canadian Navy's "finest hour"?
What was the "Head Tax"?
When did Riel's second rebellion take place?
What was the main job of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War?
What is the common name for the South African War?
Who wrote the famous war poem, "In Flanders Fields"?
What was the date that most Canadian women over the age of 21 were granted the vote in federal elections?
In what year were the Arctic Islands transferred to the Northwest Territories?
What two things did the government do to Canadians of Japanese origin during the Second World War?
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