Types of Government
This type of government sees power held by a king or queen, often inherited through family bloodlines.
What is a monarchy?
Canada officially became a country in this year.
What is 1867?
This major war ended in 1763 and resulted in France losing almost all of its North American colonies to Britain, greatly expanding British control.
What is the Seven Years War?
Ancient Athens is famous for creating this system where citizens voted directly on decisions.
What is a direct democracy?
Allowing people to vote is an example of this.
What is Democracy / democratic decision making?
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This Prime Minister signed the Constitution Act of 1982, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
These American colonists remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution; when they fled to British North America, they helped grow English-speaking communities and reshape Canadian society.
Who were the Loyalists?
In this type of society, family lineage, inheritance, and social status are traced through the mother’s side of the family.
In this style of decision-making, leaders make decisions without consulting the people and expect obedience.
What is authoritarian?
A government ruled by a small group of elite people is called this.
What is an oligarchy?
These were the first four provinces to join together and form the Dominion of Canada.
What are Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia?
A political system where several groups, states, or nations agree to unite under a common purpose while maintaining their own independence.
What is a confederacy?
This English document limited the king’s power for the first time and is known as the "great charter"
What is the Magna Carta?
These are two examples of a democracy.
What are a Republic and a Constitutional Monarchy?
A government in which citizens elect representatives to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
The name of Canada's first constitution at Confederation.
What is the British North America Act?
This man wrote the Report on the Affairs of British North America, recommending responsible government.
Who is Lord Durham?
This American document declared their independence from Britain and introduced the idea that everyone has basic human rights — not granted by a king, but inherent to being human.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
According to the Divine Right of Kings, who could question a king's decisions?
Who is God?
In ancient Rome, elected officials represented citizens in a senate under this type of government.
What is a republic?
This 1931 law gave Canada control over its foreign policy and laws.
What is the Statute of Westminster?
At the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, this influential politician and journalist supported the idea of Confederation and helped persuade delegates from the Maritimes to join the cause.
Who is George Brown?
This is one of the oldest participatory democracies in the world.
What is The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy?
The Quebec Act allowed the people of Quebec to practice this religion freely.
What is Catholicism?