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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 9

Political Empowerment

Power, voice and decisions

What your child practises

Practises what empowerment and disempowerment mean in a political context in Canada between 1830 and 1920, using inquiry and geography skills.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Political empowerment · empowerment and disempowerment in the political context in Canada, 1830-1920

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Disempowerment in politics means…

    • making all the laws
    • running the government
    • not having a say in decisions
    • voting in every election

  2. Question 2

    How is the fight for the vote in 1918 like youth voting rights debates today?

    • People want a say in decisions that affect them
    • Laws never change
    • Nobody is allowed to speak
    • Voting has been banned

  3. Question 3

    What is a petition?

    • a law passed alone
    • a ship
    • a request signed by many people
    • a kind of tax

  4. Question 4

    Before responsible government, who held most of the power in colonies?

    • all the children
    • the voters
    • every adult
    • a governor and a small group he chose

  5. Question 5

    What does political empowerment mean?

    • speaking a language
    • working in a factory
    • having a voice in the decisions that affect you
    • owning a lot of land

  6. Question 6

    Canada’s federal government passed a law in 1918 giving many women the vote. Who was still left out?

    • all men
    • many Indigenous women and some women of colour
    • every woman
    • all children

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