Grade 8 Social Studies Review

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Grade 8 Social StudiesReview

• Chapter One History and The Historian
• Chapter 2 The People Who Lived Here

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

• Collective Past

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Give an example of individual past.

• Diary
• Souvenirs
• Childhood photo
• Family heirlooms
• Autobiography/biography
• Family tree

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The history of a people.

• Collective Past

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Give an example of collective past.

• Stories told by relatives
• Books/texts
• Movies

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

• Historical Method

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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

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

• Primary Source

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List 5 sources of information.

• Libraries and museums
• Archives
• Monuments
• Historic sites
• Internet
• Oral history
• Literary and artistic expressions

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Where did the Beothuk live in Newfoundland?

• Avalon Peninsula
• St. Georges Bay
• Bonavista Peninsula
• Red Indian Lake

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

• Mamateek

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Five reasons Beothuk became extinct

• Loss of land (Europeans and Mi,kmaq)
• Starvation
• Lack of authority
• Diseases (TB)
• Conflict/violence

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

• Ktaqmkuk

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The way a person or group lives.

• Lifestyle

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

• Secondary Source

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What are the 4 groups of Europeans that came to
Newfoundland

• Scottish
• English
• French
• Irish

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

• Push factors

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Reasons why people chose to move to a particular
destination are called

• Pull factors

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Explain why the Irish came to Newfoundland.

• Migratory fishery
• Poverty
• Religious discrimination
• Rapid population increase
• Crop failures

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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

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Explain why the Scottish came to Newfoundland.

• Fish trade and sealing industry
• Railway
• Farming

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Explain why the French came to Newfoundland.

• Farming and fishery

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Where did the English settle?

• Bonavista to St. Anthony
• St. Georges Bay
• Bay of Islands
• Bonne Bay
• Southern Labrador

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Where did the French settle?

• St. Georges Bay, mostly on the Port au Port
  Peninsula
• Codroy Valley due to good climate

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Where did the Irish settle?

• St. Johns to Placentia Bay
• Conception bay
• Fogo Island

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Where did the Scottish settle?

• Labrador (worked with HBC)
• Codroy Valley and St Georges Bay
• St Johns, Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, and
  Bonavista Bay

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What types of work did the English do when they
settled in Newfoundland?

• Fishery as fishermen, employees of merchants,
  boat owners

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

• Farming
• Fishery

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What types of work did the Irish do when they
settled in Newfoundland?

• Fishery (summer)
• Seal industry (winter)
• Boatbuilding industry (winter)

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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

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What are 2 other groups that immigrated to
Newfoundland?

• Lebanese
• Chinese

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Who is Bishop Michael Fleming?

• Irish immigrant from County Tipperary, Ireland

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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

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

• Natural Increase

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To move from place to place within Newfoundland
is called

• Internal migration