Chap 1-2 Review

Grade 8 Social Studies Review Chapter One: History and The Historian Chapter 2: The People Who Lived Here

This is made up of major events and experiences in your life that shape you and your memories.  Collective Past

Give an example of individual past.  Diary  Souvenirs  Childhood photo  Family heirlooms  Autobiography/biography  Family tree

The history of a people.

 Collective Past

Give an example of collective past.

 Stories told by relatives  Books/texts  Movies

A method of looking for evidence to answer questions that are posed.

 Historical Method

List the 4 steps of the Historical Method  Pose a good historical question  Collect reliable information  Organize and evaluate information  Interpret information and present conclusions

A first-hand account made at the time that an event occurs.

 Primary Source

List 5 sources of information.  Libraries and museums  Archives  Monuments  Historic sites  Internet  Oral history  Literary and artistic expressions

Where did the Beothuk live in Newfoundland?  Avalon Peninsula  St. Georges Bay  Bonavista Peninsula  Red Indian Lake

Cone-shaped tent, covered in birch bark an in the winter insulated with moss

 Mamateek

Five reasons Beothuk became extinct  Loss of land (Europeans and Mi,kmaq)  Starvation  Lack of authority  Diseases (TB)  Conflict/violence

Mi,kmaq word for Newfoundland meaning land across the water.

 Ktaqmkuk

The way a person or group lives.

 Lifestyle

An interpretation of an event based on information gathered from primary sources.

 Secondary Source

What are the 4 groups of Europeans that came to Newfoundland  Scottish  English  French  Irish

Reasons why people chose to leave their place of origin are called  Push factors

Reasons why people chose to move to a particular destination are called  Pull factors

Explain why the Irish came to Newfoundland.  Migratory fishery  Poverty  Religious discrimination  Rapid population increase  Crop failures

Explain why the English came to Newfoundland.  Maintain migratory fishing premises  Did not want to risk ocean travel in fear of attacks from the French Navy

Explain why the Scottish came to Newfoundland.  Fish trade and sealing industry  Railway  Farming

Explain why the French came to Newfoundland.  Farming and fishery

Where did the English settle?  Bonavista to St. Anthony  St. George’s Bay  Bay of Islands  Bonne Bay  Southern Labrador

Where did the French settle?  St. George’s Bay, mostly on the Port au Port Peninsula  Codroy Valley due to good climate

Where did the Irish settle?  St. John’s to Placentia Bay  Conception bay  Fogo Island

Where did the Scottish settle?  Labrador (worked with HBC)  Codroy Valley and St George’s Bay  St John’s, Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, and Bonavista Bay

What types of work did the English do when they settled in Newfoundland?  Fishery as fishermen, employees of merchants, boat owners

What types of work did the French do when they settled in Newfoundland?  Farming  Fishery

What types of work did the Irish do when they settled in Newfoundland?  Fishery (summer)  Seal industry (winter)  Boatbuilding industry (winter)

What types of work did the Scottish do when they settled in Newfoundland?  Scottish merchants became involved in the fish trade and sealing industry  Railway  Farmers  HBC

What are 2 other groups that immigrated to Newfoundland?  Lebanese  Chinese

Who is Bishop Michael Fleming?  Irish immigrant from County Tipperary, Ireland

What was his biggest accomplishment and why did he do it?  Construction of Basilica  Wanted to build “a temple superior to any other on the island”

When population increases due to there being more births than deaths and higher rated of immigration than emigration this is called:  Natural Increase

To move from place to place within Newfoundland is called:  Internal migration