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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 8

Confederation & Expansion

Building Canada and BC joining

What your child practises

Why the colonies united in 1867, how Manitoba and BC joined, the building of the railway and who built it, Louis Riel and the Métis, and how expansion affected First Nations.

Yukon Curriculum learning standard: Canadian Confederation and territorial expansion: BC joining Canada, the CPR, the Métis and western settlement

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

    Which workers faced dangerous conditions and low pay on the Canadian Pacific Railway?

    • British lords
    • Native-born artists
    • Thousands of Chinese labourers
    • Government ministers

  2. Question 2

    What was the National Policy (1879)?

    • A school policy
    • Tariffs on imports, western settlement and a railway to build a national economy
    • A treaty with the United States
    • A plan to leave the Empire

  3. Question 3

    Which province joined Confederation in 1873?

    • Newfoundland
    • Prince Edward Island
    • Alberta
    • Saskatchewan

  4. Question 4

    In what year did British Columbia join Confederation?

    • 1905
    • 1867
    • 1885
    • 1871

  5. Question 5

    Put these events in order, earliest first.

    • 🌾Manitoba joins Canada (1870)
    • 🌲British Columbia joins Canada (1871)
    • 🚂The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed (1885)
    • 🍁Confederation: Canada is created (1867)

  6. Question 6

    What was the Head Tax?

    • A tax on land
    • A tax on hats
    • A tax on railway tickets
    • A fee charged to Chinese immigrants starting in 1885

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