Vocabulary
This word describes an economic system based on private ownership and a free market.
Capitalism
Indigenous governance traditionally emphasizes this type of decision-making, involving all voices.
Consensus
This event in European history shifted the traditional economy to laissez-faire capitalist economy starting the era of classical liberalism
Industrial Revolution
This ideology rejects liberal democracy and emphasizes extreme nationalism and obedience to the state.
Facism
This strategy used by the USA aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
Containment
the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
Assimilation
This foundational constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy outlined peace, consensus, and responsibilities of leaders.
Great Law of Peace
Adam Smith argued that this “force” guides markets when individuals pursue their own self-interest.
The Invisible Hand
Marx argued that this class exploited workers by owning the means of production.
Bourgeoise
a period of intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States from the late 1940s to the late 1950s
McCarthyism
A political movement involving organized efforts to achieve political, social, and economic equality for women
Feminism
This 1969 federal proposal aimed to eliminate Indian status and dissolve the Department of Indian Affairs.
White Papers
This era of economic crisis in the 1930s pushed governments toward modern liberal policies such as relief programs and public works.
The Great Depression
This group, whose name means “majority,” seized power in October 1917 under Lenin’s leadership.
Bolsheviks
This 1955 military alliance, created by the Soviet Union in response to NATO, solidified the division of Europe into hostile blocs.
Warsaw Pact
a state committed to providing the basic economic security for its citizens by shielding them from boom/bust market forces
Welfare State
This 1990 conflict occurred when a Quebec town planned to expand a golf course onto disputed Mohawk land.
Oka Crisis
This group of English workers in the early 1800s destroyed factory machines because they feared the new technology would take their jobs.
Luddites
This series of programs, launched in the United States in the 1930s, aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
The New Deal
This 1962 event brought the world closest to nuclear war when the USSR placed missiles near the U.S.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This political spectrum position favours rapid often violent change and challenges traditional systems.
Radical
This term describes the government’s view of the Numbered Treaties as one-time payments in exchange for full control of Indigenous territory.
Cash for Land Approach
Modern liberalism emerged partly as a response to this perceived flaw in classical liberalism—its tendency to create severe economic inequality.
unregulated capitalism
This policy in the Soviet Union forced peasants onto state-run farms, leading to widespread famine.
Collectivization
Gorbachev’s policy of economic restructuring unintentionally destabilized the Soviet system and contributed to its end.
Perestroika