A system of government in which the people of a nation are involved in decision making.
What is a democracy?
100
A viewpoint that judges other cultures and ideas according to personal values and standards; believing one's own ethnic group is superior.
What is enthnocentrism?
100
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada who are not Metis or Inuit.
What is First Nations?
100
This describes your ancestral lines.
What is matrilineal?
100
This is the MAIN reason why the British and French were drawn into conflict in North America.
Their desire to expand and control resources and more land.
200
A process by which the culture of an individual is absorbed into a more dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
200
A way in which people meet their basic needs, such as food, clothing and shelter. (Hint: $)
What is economics?
200
In 1867, Britain passed this Act making it official that the Dominion of Canada was a country.
What is the BNA Act?
200
This food could be stored for a very long time and was nutritious.
What is Pemmican?
200
This was a ship route through the Arctic that was highly sought after but never found useable.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
A system in which members all represent the same number of people; the greater the number of people, the more power the region has.
What is Rep-by-pop?
300
A way of life or a way of being shared by a group of people.
What is culture?
300
People of mixed First Nations and European ancestry.
What is Metis?
300
This is the reason why the French and First Nations had more alliances than the British.
The French and First Nations shared a long history of trading.
300
The British were fightint against the _______________ in the War of 1812.
What are the Americans?
400
An act that was passed in July 1870 in response to the Metis Bill of Rights.
What is the Manitoba Act?
400
A widely supported document prepared by the Patriotes in 1834 calling for sweeping governmental changes.
What is 92 Resolutions?
400
The capital city in 1857, chosen by Queen Victoria.
What is Bytown?
400
To own a business and have NO other competitors is called this. The HBC was referred to as this type of company.
What is a monopoly?
400
True or False:
The Loyalists were loyal to the Americans.
FALSE - loyal to the British.
500
A form of government in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them; the representatives make the laws that are in the best initerst of the people.
What is Representative Democracy?
500
An economic system that allowed an imperial country to become rich by selling the resources taken from its colonies.
What is mercantilism?
500
One who betrays one's country.
What is a traitor (treason)?
500
In the 1700s, this country was referred as the world's superpower.
What is the United States?
500
Which British colony in Canada was the last to join Confederation?