📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions

Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question. Fill in the circle completely.

✏️ Part 2: Short Response Questions

Instructions: Answer each question in complete sentences. Use the space provided.

🎯 Extension Activities

12. Critical Thinking: Compare the reasons for Confederation in 1867 with the reasons Newfoundland and Labrador joined in 1949. How were they similar or different?

Visual Learners: Draw a simple timeline showing when each province joined Canada.

Kinesthetic Learners: Create a role-play scenario where you are a delegate at the Charlottetown Conference arguing for or against Confederation.

📋 Answer Key

Multiple Choice Answers:

1. B) 1867

2. A) Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick

3. B) The British North America Act

4. B) Sir John A. Macdonald

5. C) 1949

6. B) Economic and military security

7. A) Quebec Conference

8. B) 3.5 million

Short Response Sample Answers:

9. Economic benefits from joining a larger market; protection from American expansion; improved transportation links; shared defence costs.

10. First Prime Minister; led negotiations; promoted the idea of a transcontinental railway; helped unite different groups with varying interests.

11. Strong economic ties to Britain; fear of losing independence; successful fishing industry; different cultural identity; economic concerns about joining Canada.