Challenges of Coexistence
The Modern World
Colony to Canada
Fight for Your Right
Laws & Acts
100
bicultural
What is the tolerance of two different cultures in a region?
100
mechanization
What is the transition from human, animal, or nature powered work to machine powered work?
100
democracy
What is rule by the citizens of a region themselves, often through elected representatives?
100
revolution
What is overthrowing, often violently, the official government?
100
constitution
What is the legal document that create a country, define its government, and provide its primary laws?
200
bilingualism
What is the official acceptance of two languages in government and, therefore, society?
200
urbanization
What is the transition from an agricultural, rural-based population to a more diverse, urban (city/town-dwelling) population?
200
advise
What is providing recommendations about government or laws that are not binding?
200
republic
What is a nation governed by elected representatives and elected leader(s)?
200
colonial government
What is a government created by an imperial nation to preside over a claimed region (colony)?
300
prejudice
What is judging others based on preconceived beliefs?
300
industrialization
What is the transition from small-scale, handmade products to mass-produced, factory-based production?
300
elected assembly
What is a body of government that is democratically elected by the citizens of a region.
300
coalition
What are two groups working together despite differences to achieve a common goal?
300
self-government
What is the right of a people to make decisions for themselves?
400
assimilate
What is the process of absorbing a a group of people into a dominant culture; losing their ancestral culture?
400
immigrants
What is movement of people from one region to anther?
400
refugee
What is peoples leaving a region due to war, starvation, persecution, etc.?
400
reformers
What are people seeking significant change to how they are governed?
400
guarantee
What is an agreement between different groups that may or may not be protected in law?
500
genocide
What is the deliberate killing of a people due to their ethnic background, religion, cultural group, etc.?
500
emigration
What is movement of people from one region to another?
500
demographic change
What is a dramatic or significant change to some aspect of a population?
500
amnesty
What is pardon from persecution or prosecution?
500
compromise
What is reaching agreement by making sacrifices and/or accepting the point of view of different groups?
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