1. What was the purpose and intent of the Citizens Committee of 1000?
The purpose of the CCof 1000 was to stop the strike and represent the cities business elite with the intent to show/influence public opinion and show that the strike was tied to revolutionary ideas around communism and thus make it okay to use force against the strikers in order to oppose and stop it.
2. Provide one cause and one consequence of the Winnipeg General Strike
Causes: poor working conditions, pay, formation of OBU, advancement of women's rights around work
Consequences: two dead, many injured, strike leaders arrested, some deported, eventual change in workers rights, a strike, people sent back to work, people worrying about the spread of communism
3. Define Canadian Autonomy
-gaining political independence from Britain
4. Provide two examples we have talked about that forwarded Canadian autonomy.
-having own seat at negotiating table for the treaty of Versailles
-The Chanak Affair
•Halibut Treaty
5. What was the first treaty that Canada signed that was environmental in focus, briefly describe what it was about.
Halibut treaty, it was to prevent over-fishing
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