HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

How do we decide what is important in history?

CRITER IA FOR HISTO RICAL S IGNIF ICANCE

Person, event or object which:

A. Results in change and/or

B. Is revealing in some way

RESULTING IN CHANGE

Three things to consider:

Profundity

Quantity

Longevity

REVEALING

How a person or event sheds light on emerging issues in history or contemporary life

Links to greater narratives

ACTIVITY

Choose the 3 most important things that have happened in the history of humanity.

Why? What/who did it change? Did it reveal underlying issues?

GROUP ACTIVITY

Choose 5 events you consider the most important for North American History between the years 1500-1815 (SS9)

For each explain in 1-2 sentences why it is historically significant

Jacques Cartier Voyages

John Cabot – New Found Land

Samuel de Champlain Habitation

Establishment of New France

Establishment of the Seigneurial System

Establishment of the Fur Trade

Constitutional Act of 1791

Royal Proclamation of 1763

La Fils de Roi arrive

American Revolution

Quebec Act

Seven Years War

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

War of 1812

Treaty of Ghent

Tecumseh

POSSIBLE EVENTS