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Social Studies 7
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Unit 1
Chapter 1: The First People
Chapter 2: Explorers Arrive
2.1: Europeans Arrive
2.1 Answers
2.2: Contact With First Nations Peoples
2.3: Other Famous Explorers
Chapter 3: New France
3.1: France and Britain Establish Colonies in North America
3.2: Similarities and Differences Between French and British Colonies
3.3: Impact of Colonization on First Nations Peoples
3.4: Meet New France
3.5: Hat Craze Hits Europe!
Chapter 3: Final Assignment
Chapter 3 Answers
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade
Phase 1: The Early Fur Trade
Phase 2: Expansion Inland
Phase 3: Rival Networks
Phase 4: The Drive West
Phase 5: Monopoly in The West
Final Assessment
Unit 2
Chapter 5: War and British Conquest
5.1: The Struggle for Acadia
5.2: The Great Deportation
5.3: The British Conquest of North America
5.4: Britain's Victory: Change and Challenge
5.5: How Did Britain Establish Control?
Ancestry Project
Chapter 5 Review
Unit 6: The United States Breaks Away
6.1 Conflict in the Thirteen Colonies
6.2: Loyalist Migration to British North America
6.3 Loyalist Impact on British North America
6.4: Causes of the War of 1812
6.5: Perspectives of the War of 1812
The Re-enactment of the War of 1812
DOK Review Assignment
Chapter 7: The Great Migration and The Push for Democracy
7.1 The Great Migration
7.2 The Push for Democracy
7.3 The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838
7.4 Britain's Response to the Rebellions
7.5 Perspectives on the Act of the Union
Chapter 8: Confederation
8.1 Confederation Issues
8.2 The Confederation Deal
8.3 Other Provinces Join Confederation
Chapter 7 and 8 Project
Unit 3
Chapter 9: The MĂ©tis Rise Up
9.1: The Red River Resistance
9.2: The Manitoba Act
9.3: The Second MĂ©tis Uprising
9.4: After the Uprising
Father of Confederation or Trator?
Chapter 10: Western Expansion and the National Policy
10.1: Getting the West Ready fo Settlement
10.2: Impacts of Immigration on Western Canada
Chapter 11: Citizenship in an Evolving Society
11.1: Changing Roles and Rules
10.2: Changing Technologies and Growing Cities
Social Studies 7
Home
Textbook
Resources
Big Ideas
Unit 1
Chapter 1: The First People
Chapter 2: Explorers Arrive
2.1: Europeans Arrive
2.1 Answers
2.2: Contact With First Nations Peoples
2.3: Other Famous Explorers
Chapter 3: New France
3.1: France and Britain Establish Colonies in North America
3.2: Similarities and Differences Between French and British Colonies
3.3: Impact of Colonization on First Nations Peoples
3.4: Meet New France
3.5: Hat Craze Hits Europe!
Chapter 3: Final Assignment
Chapter 3 Answers
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade
Phase 1: The Early Fur Trade
Phase 2: Expansion Inland
Phase 3: Rival Networks
Phase 4: The Drive West
Phase 5: Monopoly in The West
Final Assessment
Unit 2
Chapter 5: War and British Conquest
5.1: The Struggle for Acadia
5.2: The Great Deportation
5.3: The British Conquest of North America
5.4: Britain's Victory: Change and Challenge
5.5: How Did Britain Establish Control?
Ancestry Project
Chapter 5 Review
Unit 6: The United States Breaks Away
6.1 Conflict in the Thirteen Colonies
6.2: Loyalist Migration to British North America
6.3 Loyalist Impact on British North America
6.4: Causes of the War of 1812
6.5: Perspectives of the War of 1812
The Re-enactment of the War of 1812
DOK Review Assignment
Chapter 7: The Great Migration and The Push for Democracy
7.1 The Great Migration
7.2 The Push for Democracy
7.3 The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838
7.4 Britain's Response to the Rebellions
7.5 Perspectives on the Act of the Union
Chapter 8: Confederation
8.1 Confederation Issues
8.2 The Confederation Deal
8.3 Other Provinces Join Confederation
Chapter 7 and 8 Project
Unit 3
Chapter 9: The MĂ©tis Rise Up
9.1: The Red River Resistance
9.2: The Manitoba Act
9.3: The Second MĂ©tis Uprising
9.4: After the Uprising
Father of Confederation or Trator?
Chapter 10: Western Expansion and the National Policy
10.1: Getting the West Ready fo Settlement
10.2: Impacts of Immigration on Western Canada
Chapter 11: Citizenship in an Evolving Society
11.1: Changing Roles and Rules
10.2: Changing Technologies and Growing Cities
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Home
Textbook
Resources
Big Ideas
Unit 1
Chapter 1: The First People
Chapter 2: Explorers Arrive
2.1: Europeans Arrive
2.1 Answers
2.2: Contact With First Nations Peoples
2.3: Other Famous Explorers
Chapter 3: New France
3.1: France and Britain Establish Colonies in North America
3.2: Similarities and Differences Between French and British Colonies
3.3: Impact of Colonization on First Nations Peoples
3.4: Meet New France
3.5: Hat Craze Hits Europe!
Chapter 3: Final Assignment
Chapter 3 Answers
Chapter 4: The Fur Trade
Phase 1: The Early Fur Trade
Phase 2: Expansion Inland
Phase 3: Rival Networks
Phase 4: The Drive West
Phase 5: Monopoly in The West
Final Assessment
Unit 2
Chapter 5: War and British Conquest
5.1: The Struggle for Acadia
5.2: The Great Deportation
5.3: The British Conquest of North America
5.4: Britain's Victory: Change and Challenge
5.5: How Did Britain Establish Control?
Ancestry Project
Chapter 5 Review
Unit 6: The United States Breaks Away
6.1 Conflict in the Thirteen Colonies
6.2: Loyalist Migration to British North America
6.3 Loyalist Impact on British North America
6.4: Causes of the War of 1812
6.5: Perspectives of the War of 1812
The Re-enactment of the War of 1812
DOK Review Assignment
Chapter 7: The Great Migration and The Push for Democracy
7.1 The Great Migration
7.2 The Push for Democracy
7.3 The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838
7.4 Britain's Response to the Rebellions
7.5 Perspectives on the Act of the Union
Chapter 8: Confederation
8.1 Confederation Issues
8.2 The Confederation Deal
8.3 Other Provinces Join Confederation
Chapter 7 and 8 Project
Unit 3
Chapter 9: The MĂ©tis Rise Up
9.1: The Red River Resistance
9.2: The Manitoba Act
9.3: The Second MĂ©tis Uprising
9.4: After the Uprising
Father of Confederation or Trator?
Chapter 10: Western Expansion and the National Policy
10.1: Getting the West Ready fo Settlement
10.2: Impacts of Immigration on Western Canada
Chapter 11: Citizenship in an Evolving Society
11.1: Changing Roles and Rules
10.2: Changing Technologies and Growing Cities
2.3: Other Famous Explorers
Martin Frobisher
British explorer
Left for the Arctic in 1576
Wanted to trade with Asians
clothes, linens, ribbons, jewelry, purses, mirrors, etc.
Before arriving in Asia, he explored the arctic and found iron pyrite (fools gold)
returned to Britain with the "gold" only to be told, by an expert, it was fake
Found an Italian expert who disagreed with the previous expert
Returned to the arctic and mined 1000 tonnes of the iron pyrite, and found no gold.
Henry Hudson
British explorer
Left Europe in 1610 to find a Northwest passage between Europe and Asia
His ship, the
Discovery
, was trapped in Hudson Bay in 1611.
Hudson wanted to explore after a long winter of battling scurvy and starvation
His crew rebelled and abandoned him
Hudson and his son with seven other men used a small boat to explore
After Hudson died, the Woodland Cree adopted his son
Rene - Robert Cavelier de la Salle
French explorer
Traveled down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Claimed the areas from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico for France
S-T-R-E-T-C-H-T-E-D the truth for his benefit
was caught lying about his language skills with the Haudenosaunee
mapped the mouth of the Mississippi west of its actual location in order to gain control of Mexico
was shot by his crew that rebelled against him, in Texas 1685
Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye
Born in New France ~1688
was a soldier until he was ~27 years old
Farmed for 16 years
On the word of the Anishinabe, he traveled west of the Great Lakes in search of the "great western sea", in search of a route to Asia
His sons continued the quest and became the first non-Aboriginal people to travel the Great Plains and see the Rocky Mountains.
Matonabbee and Samuel Hearne
Matonabbee was a leader of the Dene Suline tribe
Samuel Hearne was a British explorer
Traveled together for 2 years, while Hearne was searching for the passage to Asia
Hearne lost all his toenails to frostbite, but survived with Maronabbee's assistance
Alexander Mackenzie
British explorer
First European to reach the west coast of Canada, traveling by land
In 1789, traveled the Mackenzie River hoping to find the Pacific Ocean, but instead it flows to the Arctic Ocean
In 1793, he traveled the Peace River, which led him to BC interior and on to the Pacific.
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