Social Grade 7 - Chapter 2
to provide funds for a project or activity
sponsor
able to withstand wear, pressure, or damage
durable
a territory controlled by another country
colony
a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C. People on Jacques Cartier's ships brought it to Canada, which started an outbreak
scurvy
a disease that French and British settlers as well as Dutch traders brought into Canada, which was the cause of many First Nations people's deaths
smallpox
a country extending its control over other countries, often using economic or military means
imperialism
a place where people live permanently, such as a village; or establishing settlers in a new region as a way to take control
settlement
the contagious and potentially deadly lung disease reached epidemic proportions in Canada in the early 20th century and peaked among Inuit between the 1940s to the 1960s
tuberculosis
the state or quality of being resistant to a particular infectious disease; protection or exemption from something, especially an obligation or penalty
immunity
a brutal or vicious person; this term was used against First Nations people as an ethnocentric insult
savages