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Legacies of historical globalization

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Legacies of historical globalization

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  1. The Métis are recognised in Canada as

    1. a) recent immigrants
    2. b) a francophone community only
    3. c) a subgroup of First Nations
    4. d) a distinct Indigenous people with their own history and culture

  2. An argument that present-day society bears responsibility for historical wrongs is that

    1. a) the benefits and harms of those wrongs are still distributed today
    2. b) no time limit exists in law
    3. c) everyone alive was involved
    4. d) the past cannot be studied

  3. Reconciliation, as used in this course, means

    1. a) paying compensation only
    2. b) returning all land
    3. c) repairing the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
    4. d) forgetting the past

  4. The Columbian exchange refers to the transfer between the Americas and Europe of

    1. a) only ideas
    2. b) plants, animals, people and diseases
    3. c) only enslaved people
    4. d) only gold and silver

  5. Assimilation policies aimed to

    1. a) establish self-government
    2. b) protect traditional cultures
    3. c) increase trade
    4. d) absorb a people into the dominant culture, replacing their own

  6. Eurocentrism is

    1. a) a form of government
    2. b) judging other cultures by European standards and assumptions
    3. c) the study of Europe
    4. d) a European trade policy

  7. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada reported in

    1. a) 2008
    2. b) 2021
    3. c) 1996
    4. d) 2015

  8. Industrialization intensified historical globalization mainly by

    1. a) ending empires
    2. b) slowing migration
    3. c) creating demand for raw materials and markets for manufactured goods
    4. d) reducing trade

  9. Mercantilism was an economic system in which a colonial power

    1. a) abolished tariffs
    2. b) gave colonies economic independence
    3. c) took raw materials from colonies and sold manufactured goods back to them
    4. d) traded freely with all nations

  10. The Indian Act of 1876 is significant to this course because it

    1. a) gave the Canadian government control over most aspects of First Nations life
    2. b) was a treaty
    3. c) granted self-government
    4. d) ended residential schools

Answer key · Legacies of historical globalization

Social Studies 10-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. d) a distinct Indigenous people with their own history and culture — Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 names First Nations, Métis and Inuit as three distinct peoples. Treating them as one category is a common and consequential error.
  2. a) the benefits and harms of those wrongs are still distributed today — The strongest version is about ongoing effects — land, wealth, health and education outcomes — rather than inherited guilt. The counter-argument is that responsibility cannot be inherited, and a good essay engages with that rather than dismissing it.
  3. c) repairing the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples — The TRC framed it as a relationship to be rebuilt, requiring acknowledgement, action and time. Treating it as a single transaction is the misunderstanding the Commission argued against.
  4. b) plants, animals, people and diseases — Potatoes and maize went east; horses, wheat and smallpox went west. Disease was the most devastating element, killing a large majority of Indigenous populations in some regions before most Europeans arrived.
  5. d) absorb a people into the dominant culture, replacing their own — Canada's residential school system is the case the course centres on. The intent was to remove language, culture and family ties — which is what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission described as cultural genocide.
  6. b) judging other cultures by European standards and assumptions — It is the worldview underlying much of historical globalization, and naming it is often what a source question is looking for. It shows up in maps, in histories and in whose account is treated as the default.
  7. d) 2015 — It heard from thousands of residential school survivors and issued 94 Calls to Action. The Calls are recommendations rather than law, which is why progress depends on political will and can be measured.
  8. c) creating demand for raw materials and markets for manufactured goods — Factories needed cotton, rubber and metals from elsewhere and needed somewhere to sell what they made. That economic engine is what turned scattered colonies into systematic empires.
  9. c) took raw materials from colonies and sold manufactured goods back to them — The colony was designed to enrich the home country, which is why so many post-colonial economies still depend on exporting raw materials. That pattern is a legacy, not an accident.
  10. a) gave the Canadian government control over most aspects of First Nations life — It regulated status, land, governance and culture, and much of it remains in force in amended form. It is the clearest Canadian example of a legacy that is still operating rather than only remembered.