Key Terms
One country’s domination over another country’s economic, political, and cultural institutions
What is imperialism?
A variety of land and sea routes that connected Asia with Europe and lead to the first instances of international trade
What is the Silk Road?
The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
What is assimilation?
This decree stated that all lands in North America were the property of Indigenous nations
What is the Royal Proclamation?
This group of people were essentially made extinct by the arrival of outsiders to what is now Canada.
Who are the Beothuk?
A way of thinking that centres on one’s own race and culture is the only valid one
What is Ethnocentrism?
This famous explorer mistakenly landed in the Caribbean believing it to be India
Who is Christopher Columbus
This education system forcibly took children from their parents in the 1880's until 1996.
What is the residential schools?
These were signed between Indigenous leaders and representatives of the British Crown between 1871 and 1921
What are the Numbered Treaties
When people arrive on a new land and set up a community while also establishing control over the indigenous people.
What is colonization?
A policy of destroying a community's culture and thereby destroying its people.
What is cultural genocide?
An economic policy used by European powers that limited the amount of trade colonies could do to only with the mother country
What is mercantilism?
The Berlin Conference was called in 1884 and led to this famous rush
The Scramble for Africa
This Canadian legislation dictates the lives of individuals deemed to have "Status"
What is the Indian Act?
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for a profit, rather than by the government.
What is capitalism?
The current Prime Minister of Canada.
Who is Justin Trudeau?
This period of products being made by machines led to their dramatic drop in cost and increase in availability
What is the Industrial Revolution
The current Related Issue 2 Unit is about this.
What is historical globalization?
Legislation passed by Canadian parliament in 1774, granting emancipation for the Catholic, French speaking settlers of the the province. It repealed the loyalty oath and reinstated French civil law in combination with British criminal law.
What is the Quebec Act?
A system of government where a whole population of eligible members get to vote for elected representatives.
What is democracy?
An official Canadian government policy founded on the idea that Canadian society is made of many culturally distinct groups who are free to affirm and promote their own cultural identity
What is multiculturalism?
A system based off the sale of individuals from Africa and them being kept as property in the Americas
What is the slave trade?
The development of industry in a country or region on a wide scale.
What is industrialization?
The name of the document that fully laid out the experiences of survivors of the Indian Residential School system in Canada
This famous legislation set the core elements of the relationship between the First Nations and the Crown, and laid the foundation for the treaty-making process.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?