Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 9
Island Life Around 1900
School, work and home in 1900
What your child practises
Practises what everyday life was like on Prince Edward Island around 1900 (school, farm work, travel, health and community) and how changes gave some groups more or less power.
Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Societal empowerment · everyday life, schooling, health and community on Prince Edward Island around 1900
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which group was very active in the temperance movement?
- ship owners
- railway companies
- fox farmers
- women’s groups
women’s groups
Hint: It was one way women took part in public life before they could vote.
Question 2
What was the temperance movement?
- a campaign to reduce or ban alcohol
- a campaign for faster trains
- a sports league
- a group of shipbuilders
a campaign to reduce or ban alcohol
Hint: Many women took part.
Question 3
Around 1900, many rural children went to a school with one room. What was it like?
- there were no teachers
- only adults went
- one teacher taught children of many ages together
- each grade had its own building
one teacher taught children of many ages together
Hint: Older students often helped younger ones.
Question 4
How did people around 1900 usually keep in touch with faraway family?
- by text message
- by video call
- by writing letters
- by email
by writing letters
Hint: Mail travelled by train and ship.
Question 5
Why did some Islanders oppose cars in the early 1900s?
- cars scared horses and seemed dangerous
- cars were too slow
- cars were too quiet
- cars could fly
cars scared horses and seemed dangerous
Hint: Most people still used horses.
Question 6
Why might a farm family have little cash around 1900?
- money was not invented
- they were paid only in gold
- much of what they had was land, animals and crops, not money
- banks did not exist anywhere
much of what they had was land, animals and crops, not money
Hint: Farm wealth was often not in cash.