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Unit 10 Study Flashcards
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1
Question
What broad transformation did British North America undergo in Unit 10?
Answer
It shifted toward a society that was more urban, commercially driven, unequal, and institutionally organized.
2
Question
What major forces changed social relations in British North America during this period?
Answer
Immigration, urban growth, economic change, religious conflict, and shifting class and gender roles.
3
Question
How did economic change affect everyday life in British North America?
Answer
It increased wage labor, insecurity, inequality, migration, and class division.
4
Question
Why were households still important during economic change?
Answer
Because the household remained a central unit of survival, labor, and economic cooperation even as wage labor expanded.
5
Question
What was one major effect of immigration on British North America?
Answer
It made society more diverse but also increased tensions based on ethnicity, religion, and class.
6
Question
What group was especially important to immigration in the Atlantic colonies and Canada?
Answer
British and Irish immigrants, especially Irish migrants during and around the Famine years.
7
Question
What shaped immigration to Vancouver Island and British Columbia?
Answer
Frontier economies, labor demand, and resource booms, including Asian migration.
8
Question
How did Irish immigrants often experience migration in the mid-19th century?
Answer
They often faced disease, poverty, dangerous travel, and anti-Catholic prejudice.
9
Question
How were Asian immigrants' experiences different from Irish immigrants' experiences?
Answer
Asian immigrants faced stronger and more consistent racial exclusion, especially in western colonies.
10
Question
Why did institutions such as asylums, prisons, orphanages, and schools grow in this period?
Answer
Governments and reformers wanted to manage order, poverty, illness, crime, dependency, and morality in a growing society.
11
Question
Why did sectarian violence become common in British North America?
Answer
Because religion was tied to politics, identity, and public space, especially in conflicts between Protestants and Catholics.
12
Question
What role did the Orange Order play in sectarian conflict?
Answer
It was a powerful Protestant organization that often helped turn public rituals and civic life into sites of anti-Catholic conflict.
13
Question
How were women's lives changing in this period?
Answer
Women remained constrained by domestic ideals, but they were also increasingly visible as workers, caregivers, and community builders.
14
Question
How did the changing economy affect social classes and categories?
Answer
It sharpened class divisions and linked them more closely to ethnicity, gender, work, and respectability.
15
Question
What is the main argument of Sherry Olson's reading on Montréal in the 1840s?
Answer
That ethnic and political tensions in Montréal were deeply shaped by labor patterns, household survival, poverty, and class inequality.
16
Question
What evidence does Sherry Olson use in the packet summary?
Answer
The 1842 census and local tax records.
17
Question
What did Sherry Olson show about jobs in Montréal?
Answer
That jobs were strongly segmented by ethnicity, with higher-status work more common among some Protestants and low-paid labor more common among Irish Catholics.
18
Question
Why is the household important in Olson's interpretation?
Answer
Because household labor, family cooperation, servants, and apprentices were central to economic survival.
19
Question
What is the main argument of Ian Radforth's article on Catholic processions in Toronto?
Answer
That conflicts over Catholic processions revealed struggles over public space, religious freedom, Protestant dominance, and the limits of liberal tolerance.
20
Question
Which Protestant group is especially important in Radforth's Toronto article?
Answer
The Orangemen, who saw Catholic processions as illegitimate and threatening.
21
Question
What did Catholic leaders argue in response to attacks on processions?
Answer
That Catholics had collective religious rights and the right to public expression and protection as a minority community.
22
Question
What larger conclusion does Radforth make about liberal order in Canada?
Answer
That liberal order developed through conflict, exclusion, and struggles over minority rights and public space, not smoothly or equally.
23
Question
What is Megan J. Davies's main argument in the first aging transcript?
Answer
That older people should not be seen only as passive recipients of care; they were active agents shaping their own lives.
24
Question
According to Megan J. Davies, what shaped old age besides state institutions?
Answer
Everyday life, family support, community networks, work adjustments, and economic strategies.
25
Question
Why does Davies say aging should be studied historically?
Answer
Because what counted as old age depended on social conditions, public support, labor roles, and cultural expectations, not just biology.
26
Question
What is the main argument of Megan J. Davies's second aging transcript?
Answer
That old age was historically defined through gender roles, labor expectations, dependency, and social roles, not just years lived.
27
Question
How was old age often defined for men, according to Davies?
Answer
By their ability to keep doing paid work and fulfilling the breadwinner role.
28
Question
How was old age often defined for women, according to Davies?
Answer
By their ability to continue domestic labor and caregiving; old age became more visible when they needed care themselves.
29
Question
What is the main argument of Ian Radforth's transcript on the 1860 royal visit?
Answer
That the royal visit was a public spectacle used to display loyalty and identity, but it also exposed social and sectarian divisions.
30
Question
Why was media attention important to the 1860 royal visit?
Answer
It turned the tour into a public performance that people across the colonies watched and judged.