GO1 Vocabulary
This is a group of people united by common factors such as, history, beliefs, languages and traditions, among many others.
What is a nation?
A government that is responsible to its people.
What is responsible government?
The Three Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France are made up of the nobility, the commoners and this group.
Who are the clergy?
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?
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?
A geographical area with legally defined borders and an identifiable political system.
What is a nation-state (country)?
The process where individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
What is assimilation?
King Louise XVI's marriage to Marie Antoinette was meant to aid in the political union between France and this country.
What is Austria?
There are this many Calls to Action laid out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada as of 2015.
What is 94?
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?
The power of a state to govern itself and its subjects.
What is sovereignty?
The estrangement or withdrawal from society or family.
What is alienation?
This document was established by the National Assembly in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
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?
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?
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?
The advocacy of cultural, ethnic, religious, racial, regional, governmental or gender separation from a larger group.
What is separatism?
This is the island Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to after his second critical loss during the Battle of Waterloo.
What is St. Helena?
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?
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?
What is self-determination?
The recognition and acceptance of diversity in religious beliefs, social groups, values and political powers.
What is pluralism?
This French Lawyer is seen as the father of the French Revolution.
Who is Robespierre?
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?
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?