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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 9

Economic Empowerment

Power over work, money and resources

What your child practises

Practises what empowerment and disempowerment mean in an economic context in Canada between 1830 and 1920, using inquiry and geography skills.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Economic empowerment · empowerment and disempowerment in the economic context in Canada, 1830-1920

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

    Why did factory owners often have more power than workers?

    • They worked fewer hours
    • They lived near the water
    • They were younger
    • They owned the factories and set wages

  2. Question 2

    Many farm families on the Island rented their land. Who had more economic power?

    • neither group
    • the children
    • the landowners
    • the tenant farmers

  3. Question 3

    Which is a way to compare an economic issue from the past with today?

    • Count the pages in the book
    • Ignore the past
    • Look at how workers’ rights have changed
    • Look at old cartoons only

  4. Question 4

    In 1885 Canada began charging a $50 head tax. Who had to pay it?

    • every farmer
    • Chinese people coming to Canada
    • every landlord
    • every ship builder

  5. Question 5

    The time period 1830 to 1920 covers about how many years?

    • 9 years
    • 90 years
    • 50 years
    • 190 years

  6. Question 6

    The National Policy of 1879 put taxes called tariffs on goods from other countries. What was the goal?

    • to help Canadian factories sell more
    • to end all trade
    • to lower prices on every good
    • to close the Island ports

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