Charter Rights & Democracy
This Charter right allows Canadians to move and work anywhere in Canada.
What are Mobility Rights?
This person is the leader of the political party that wins a provincial election.
Who is the Premier?
This activity is both a right and a responsibility of Canadian citizens.
What is Voting?
This city-state created one of the world's first democracies.
What is Ancient Athens?
The constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
Publishing a political cartoon in a newspaper is an example of this freedom.
What is Freedom of Expression?
These elected officials represent citizens in Alberta’s Legislative Assembly.
Who are MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly)?
A signed request asking government to make a change.
What is a Petition?
The main decision-making body where citizens debated and voted.
What was the Assembly?
These women selected and could remove chiefs.
Who were Clan Mothers?
This principle of democracy means government leaders must answer to citizens for their decisions.
What is Accountability?
This representative of the King officially swears in the Premier and government.
Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
Organizing a charity fundraiser is an example of this.
What is Active Citizenship?
Foreign residents of Athens who could work but not vote were called these.
What were Metics?
Important agreements and history were recorded using these.
What are Wampum Belts?
This system of government is used in Canada where citizens elect representatives.
What is Representative Democracy?
The political party with the second-largest number of seats becomes this.
What is the Official Opposition?
Information that favors one side unfairly is called this.
What is Bias?
This group prepared issues for the Assembly and had 500 members.
What was the Council of 500?
This treaty signed in 1701 helped create peace among many First Nations groups and the French.
What is the Treaty of La Grande Paix de Montréal?
Name the five* major democratic principles studied in Grade 6.(4 Pillars plus 1)
What are Justice, Equality, Freedom, Representation, and Accountability?
Put these election steps in order: Voting, Government Dissolved, Campaigning, Winner Declared.
What is Government Dissolved → Campaigning → Voting → Winner Declared?
Explain the difference between a fact and an opinion.
A fact can be proven true, while an opinion is a personal belief or feeling.
Name three groups that could not participate fully in Athenian democracy.
Who were Women, Metics, and Slaves?
Name the six nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Who are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora?