GO1 Vocabulary
GO4 Vocabulary
The French Revolution
Contending Loyalties
Visions of Canadian Identity
100

This is a group of people united by common factors such as, history, beliefs, languages and traditions, among many others.

What is a nation?

100

A government that is responsible to its people.

What is responsible government?

100

The Three Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France are made up of the nobility, the commoners and this group.

Who are the clergy?

100

This tightly-contested vote was held by the population of Quebec in 1995 to see if its people would be interested in seeing if the province should separate from Canada.

What is the Quebec Referendum?

100

This was Canada's Minister of the Interior who was tasked with bringing in immigrants to help populate and settle western Canada.

Who was Clifford Sifton?

200

A geographical area with legally defined borders and an identifiable political system.

What is a nation-state (country)?

200

The process where individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.

What is assimilation?

200

King Louise XVI's marriage to Marie Antoinette was meant to aid in the political union between France and this country.

What is Austria?

200

There are this many Calls to Action laid out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada as of 2015.

What is 94?

200

This Ojibwa Chief wanted to promote collaboration as a way to maintain the Indigenous culture in Canada in the early years of confederation. 

Who is Shingwaukonse?

300

The power of a state to govern itself and its subjects.

What is sovereignty?

300

The estrangement or withdrawal from society or family.

What is alienation?

300

This document was established by the National Assembly in 1789.

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

300

This event occurred in the summer of 1990 after a land claim dispute between the province of Quebec and the Mohawk confederacy. It resulted in the first usage of the War Time Measures Act since the 2nd World War.

What is the Oka Crisis?

300

These two politicians were focused on protecting Canada's independence from the United States in the early stages of Canada as a country.

Who are John A. MacDonald and Georges Etienne Cartier?

400

This is a feeling of attachment and connection to a country, nation or political community. Also known as the love of a country.

What is patriotism?

400

The advocacy of cultural, ethnic, religious, racial, regional, governmental or gender separation from a larger group.

What is separatism?

400

This is the island Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to after his second critical loss during the Battle of Waterloo.

What is St. Helena?

400

Baltej Singh Dhillon being allowed to wear his turban as a member of the Canadian RCMP is an example of this constitutional concept?

What is reasonable accommodations?

400

These two politicians vision for Canad was to have an anglophone-francophone partnership that worked towards being a responsible government for its people.

Who are Robert Baldwin and Louise Hippolyte Lafontaine?

500
The process by which a group of people form their own state and choose their own government.

What is self-determination?

500

The recognition and acceptance of diversity in religious beliefs, social groups, values and political powers.

What is pluralism?

500

This French Lawyer is seen as the father of the French Revolution.

Who is Robespierre?

500

Who claimed that they had final say in terms of resource management during the Wet-Suwet'en Pipeline dispute in 2020?

Who were the hereditary chiefs?

500

This french-speaking lawyer wanted to promote equality between french and English-speaking Canadians by limiting how many British North American colonies joined confederation.

Who is Antoine-Aime Dorion?

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