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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 9

Newcomers Seeking Fairness

Immigrant groups who spoke up and won change.

What your child practises

Practises the struggle for empowerment by groups immigrating to Canada, including the Chinese head tax, the Komagata Maru, wartime internment, redress and multiculturalism. It follows the Grade 8 social studies skill descriptor on events and peoples in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: History: Events and Peoples · the struggle for empowerment by groups immigrating to Canada

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a citizen?

    • a kind of city
    • a type of passport photo
    • a visitor for one day
    • a legal member of a country, with rights and responsibilities

  2. Question 2

    What is an immigrant?

    • a tourist on a short trip
    • a person who moves to a new country to live
    • a type of farm animal
    • a person who never leaves home

  3. Question 3

    In which year did the federal government apologize for the Chinese head tax?

    • 1956
    • 1906
    • 2006
    • 1986

  4. Question 4

    Why is a government apology for past wrongs important?

    • It punishes children today
    • It admits harm and helps rebuild trust
    • It changes nothing
    • It erases history

  5. Question 5

    Which is an example of empowerment for a newcomer group?

    • giving up its language by law
    • forming an organization to speak up for its rights
    • staying silent about unfair rules
    • never voting

  6. Question 6

    Before Canadian citizenship was created in 1947, people in Canada were legally…

    • not part of any country
    • British subjects
    • American citizens
    • French citizens

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