Sample Final Questions

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Sample Final Questions

• General principles
• Answer all of the questione.g., if you are asked
  about two time periods and two regions, make sure
  your answer has two time periods and two regions.
  
• Use critical analysisfocus on what the question
  asks, make sure your answer is clear and
  addresses the why question

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Sample Final Questions

• Make sure to provide historical
  contextappropriate technologies, appropriate
  names. Make sure I can tell where and when your
  answer is based
• Layer on additional detail once critical analysis
  is done.

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Sample Comprehensive Questions

• Tariffs have played a significant role in
  Canadian economic development. Give two examples
  in two time periods of key tariffsand explain why
  they had the impacts they did. One should have a
  positive impact and one a negative. Support your
  answer with economic analysis
• Define the tariffs and time periods
• Discuss the theory
• Go through the effects for each tariffs
• Answer why question

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Sample comprehensive Questions

• Discuss the changing role of government in
  Canadian economic development. Why did the role
  change? Be sure to use examples from at least two
  time periods. You should focus on colonial and
  then federal governmentsnot the provinces
• Changes in theory
• Changes in government revenue.

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Sample comprehensive Questions

• Critically assess the role of railways and their
  financing in Canadian economic development. Be
  sure to include discussion of both pre- and
  post-Confederation development

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Sample Final Questions

• Critically assess the role of government in the
  First and Second World Wars in Canada. What
  economic factors were important in determining
  the role were there social factors as well?
• Use your theory to set up the question
• Then illustrate with examples and social changes

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Sample Final Questions

• Critically assess the actions of the federal
  government in the interwar period. Would a
  different approach to fiscal and or monetary
  policy have mitigated the Depression of the
  1930s?