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Curricular Competency
Assess how prevailing conditions and the actions of individuals or groups affect events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence)
Elaboration
- Sample activities:
- Make connections between events and their causes, consequences, and implications.
- Compare and contrast the origins, course, and outcomes of two different revolutions.
- Track key developments in Canadian sovereignty and statehood over time, from 1763 to 1931.
- Key questions:
- Did the 1837–38 rebellions advance the cause of political sovereignty from Britain in Upper and Lower Canada?
- To what extent does the American Civil War still cause tensions between the US southern and northern states?
- To what extent did industrial capacity determine the outcome of conflicts from 1870 to 1918?
- Do economic factors always play key roles in causing revolutions?
- What is the true date of Canadian Confederation? Explain your reasoning.
- What are the most significant reasons for colonial expansion?
- Did the French Revolution result in positive change for the French people? Explain why or why not.
- To what extent did the Russo-Japanese War signal the end of European global hegemony?
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Assess how prevailing conditions and the actions of individuals or groups affect events, decisions, or developments