Question
A federal compromise with Thomas Greenway’s provincial government largely ended this crisis. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this crisis, partly sparked by the passage of the Official Language Act, that disputed abolishing separate Protestant and Catholic education in its eponymous province. This crisis largely ended Mackenzie Bowell’s government.
ANSWER: Manitoba Schools Question [accept descriptions of a political crisis over schools in Manitoba; accept MB in place of “Manitoba”]
[10h] Wilfrid Laurier (“LORR-ee-ay”) became Prime Minister after the Manitoba Schools crisis. His Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, ran a hugely successful immigration campaign by marketing Canada’s prairies with this three-word slogan.
ANSWER: The “Last Best West”
[10e] Sifton was Minister of the Interior during the Klondike Gold Rush, which occurred in this region. This region was officially separated from the North-West Territories in 1898.
ANSWER: Yukon [or Yukon Territory; or the Yukon; or YT]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |