Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History Part 2

Disputes between Canada and the United States since 1814 settled by treaty or arbitration. The Hundred Years of Peace

Canada, at the opening of the twentieth century; transportation, industry, means of defence, education (Chap. XXV)

Ontario since Confederation: John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Sir George W. Ross, Sir James P. Whitney (Chap.

XXVI)

An account of how Canada is governed, simple and concrete and as far as possible related to the experience of the pupils; Munic.i.p.al Government, Provincial Government, Federal Government (Chap. XXVII)

FORM IV

SENIOR GRADE

BRITISH HISTORY

A

_A Course of about Two Months_

The Early Inhabitants--The Britons

The Coming of the Romans

The Coming of the Saxons

The Coming of Christianity

Alfred the Great

The Coming of the Normans--The Feudal System

Richard I and the Crusaders

John and Magna Charta

The Scottish War of Independence

The Hundred Years' War--Crecy, Agincourt, Joan of Arc.

The Wars of the Roses (no lists of battles or details of fighting)

Caxton and Printing

Separation between the English Church and Rome

B

_A Course of about Eight Months_

Brief account of the British Isles, territorial, political, and religious, as an introduction to the reign of Elizabeth.

Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots; the Spanish Armada; Drake, Hawkins, Gilbert, Raleigh, Shakespeare.

The Stuarts: "Divine Right of Kings" supported by majority of gentry and landowners (cavaliers), opposed by the commercial and trading cla.s.ses and yeomen (roundheads). The Kings strove for absolute power, the Parliament for const.i.tutional government.

James I: Union of the English and Scottish Crowns.

Charles I: Struggle between King and Parliament; Pet.i.tion of Right, s.h.i.+p Money, rebellion, execution of Charles.

Commonwealth: nominally a republic, really a dictators.h.i.+p under Cromwell. He gave Britain a strong government at home, and made her respected abroad, and laid the foundations of Britain's foreign trade and colonial empire.

Charles II: The Restoration: Reaction in state, church, and society; King striving for absolute power; Nonconformists persecuted; society profligate in its revolt against the strictness of Puritanism; Habeas Corpus Act; Test Act; Plague and Great Fire.

James II: Revolution of 1688, the death-knell of "divine right"; Parliament supreme; Declaration of Rights.

William and Mary: Party government--Whigs and Tories; King to act by advice of his ministers; each parliament limited to three years; Bill of Rights; Act of Settlement.

Anne: Marlborough; Union between England and Scotland, 1707; the Jacobites, 1715 and 1745.

George II: Walpole, the great peace minister--home and colonial trade fostered and material wealth of the nation greatly increased; Pitt, the great war minister; territorial expansion in Canada and India--Wolfe, Clive; the Methodist Movement, Wesley.

George III: The American Revolution, 1776-83: loss of the American Colonies; Pitt; Was.h.i.+ngton; acquisition of Australia by Great Britain, 1788; legislative union of Ireland with Great Britain, 1801; Napoleonic wars; Nelson, Wellington, Aboukir, Trafalgar, and Waterloo; industrial revolution--the change from an agricultural to an industrial country.

William IV: Reform Act of 1832, a great forward movement in democratic government; abolition of slavery, 1833; railways and steams.h.i.+ps.

Victoria: First British settlement in New Zealand, 1839; Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846--free trade, the commercial policy of England; Elementary Education Act, 1870, education compulsory; parliamentary franchise extended--vote by ballot; Crimean war; Indian Mutiny; Egypt and the Suez Ca.n.a.l; Boer War--Orange Free State and South African Republic annexed; social progress.

Edward VII: Irish Land Act of 1903; pensions for aged labourers; King Edward, "the Peace-maker."

CIVICS

Taxation--direct and indirect; how the revenue of the Dominion, provinces, and munic.i.p.alities, respectively, is collected.

Federal Government--Governor-general, Senate, House of Commons, Premier, Cabinet.

Imperial Government--King, House of Lords, House of Commons, Premier, Cabinet.

HISTORY