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Chapter 7 Vocab
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01/17/2011

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Sir Wilfred Laurier
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seventh Prime Minister of Canada
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Imperialism
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the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship
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The British Empire
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comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom
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The Boer War
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1899 was a dirty little conflict which involved all the Boer Republics and the British empire
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Compromise
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agreement: a settlement of a dispute in which two or more sides agree to accept less than they originally wanted
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Henri Bourassa
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was a French Canadian political leader and publisher
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HMS dreadnought
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was a battleship of the British Royal Navy that revolutionised naval power
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Navel sercive act
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established the Royal Canadian Navy, 4 May 1910
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"Tin pot Navy"
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Conservatives famously dubbed Laurier’s new policy as the “Tin Pot Navy”. The bill was highly criticized by the French Canadian Nationalists, led by Henri Bourassa
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Reciprocity
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reciprocal relationship or act: something done mutually or in return
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The Alaska Panhandle
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is the northern terminus of the Inside Passage, a protected waterway of convoluted passages between islands and fjords
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The Yukon Gold Rush
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was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and for gold prospecting
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Breadbasket of the World
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Three quarters of the world's food supply consists of five crops; potato, manioc, wheat, maize and rice, and all of these crops are grown in the drylands
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Last Best West
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was a phrase used to market the Canadian prairies to prospective immigrants
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Clifford Sifton
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was a Canadian politician best known for being Minister of the Interior
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Dryland Farming
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is an agricultural technique for non-irrigated cultivation of land which receives little natural rainfall
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Push Factors
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Sometimes these factors leave people with no choice but to leave their country of origin
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Pull Factors
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A positive factor exerted by the locality towards which people move
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Doukhabors
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are a sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom now live in western Canada
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Home Children
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is a common term used to refer to the child migration scheme founded by Annie Macpherson in 1869
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soddie
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Depicts prairie settlers building their first home from the same sod they break to grow their crops.
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tenement
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law refers to the feudal basis of permanent property such as land
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Railway City
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is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site
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Union
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is created in a workplace when a majority of workers in a particular workplace sign membership cards to join a union
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james dunsmuir
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was a British Columbian industrialist and politician.
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Dunsmuir Coal
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now moved to market on Dunsmuir rail and in Dunsmuir ships and the business empire also included
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Strikebreakers
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is a person who works despite an ongoing strike
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Frank Oliver
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Canadian politician
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Asiatic Exclusion League
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was a racist organization formed in the early twentieth century in the United States and Canada
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