Political Systems
In this system, citizens vote to elect representatives who make decisions on their behalf.
What is democracy?
The colony that later became Ontario was called this in the early 1800s
What is Upper Canada?
This outdated medieval system gave land to nobles and forced peasants to work for them.
What is feudalism?
This major movement of people to Canada in the 1800s brought over 800,000 immigrants, mostly from Britain.
What is the Great Migration of Canada?
This was a fee Chinese immigrants had to pay to enter Canada between 1885 and 1923.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
A type of economy where businesses are privately owned and prices are set by supply and demand.
What is an open market?
This refers to a sense of belonging to a country and sharing its values and goals.
What is national identity?
A wave of panic and violence in the countryside when peasants attacked nobles' estates in 1789.
What is the Great Fear?
The railway forced this group of people to be displaced and their traditional territories to be crossed without consent.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
She was the unpopular queen known for her extravagance.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This form of government is led by a king or queen, but laws are made by elected officials.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A secret network that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in Canada.
This intellectual movement inspired people to question authority and demand rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
This ship was turned away from Vancouver in 1914, preventing South Asian immigrants from entering Canada.
What is the Komagata Maru?
This French slogan summed up the goals of the Revolution.
What is "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite?"
A way of showing different political beliefs from left to right.
What is the political spectrum?
These 2 provinces-to-be supported Confederation partly because a railway could help connect it to markets.
What are Nova Scotia and New Brunswick?
James Watt improved this invention, which became key to powering factories.
What is the steam engine?
Laws that intentionally block or discourage certain groups from immigrating are called this.
What are exclusionary policies?
These individuals represented their colonies and debated the terms of Confederation.
Who are delegates?
This branch interprets the law and ensures they are fairly applied.
What is the judicial branch?
The 72 Resolutions developed at the Quebec Conference became the foundation for this 1867 law.
What is the British North America Act (BNA Act)?
This radical revolutionary group pushed for more extreme change and influenced the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
The long-term impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples include intergenerational trauma and this.
What are broken treaties and loss of cultural identity?
This word means having the power to govern yourself without outside control.
What is autonomy?