Upper & Lower Canada
What colony half a majority anglophone and Protestant population?
What is Upper Canada?
What is the name of the elected group that represented voters in each region?
What is the Legislative Assembly?
What group had very little real power despite being elected?
What are members of the Legislative Assembly?
What year were the first elections for the Legislative Assembly held?
What is 1792?
What term describes a system where citizens elect representatives to govern?
What is democracy?
What was the dominant language and religion in Lower Canada?
What is french speaking and Catholic?
What system allowed the population to vote for representatives for the first time?
What is the parliamentary system?
What problem existed because the Executive Council was not accountable to the Legislative Assembly?
What is lack of accountability to elected representatives?
Who was allowed to vote at the start of the 19th century?
What are adult male landowners over 21?
What is a proposed law before it becomes official?
What is a bill?
What act divided the province of Quebec into upper and Lower Canada in 1791?
What is the Constitutional act of 1791?
What body drafted, proposed and voted on bills and taxes?
What is the Legislative Assembly?
What council approved or amended bills passed by the elected assembly?
What is the Legislative Council?
What voting method often caused confrontation during early elections?
What is voting by a show of hands?
What do we call the right to vote?
What is suffrage?
What is the river that separates Upper and Lower Canada?
What is the Ottawa River?
What official had the power to veto bills, dissolve the Legislative Assembly and appoint council members?
What is the Governor?
What power limited the influence of elected representatives by allowing laws to be rejected?
What is veto power?
What political group passed a bill in 1834 attempting to prohibit women from voting?
What is the Parti patriote?
What is the right to reject a law passed by an assembly called?
What is a veto?
What is the reason Upper and Lower Canada were named based on elevation rather than latitude?
What is it because the names refer to elevation along the Saint Lawrence river, not latitude?
What Council managed the colony's budget and enforced laws without being accountable to elected members?
What is the Executive Council?
What major issue allowed appointed officials to hold power for life without being elected?
What is appointed council members holding power for life without elections?
What year did women finally regain the right to vote provincially in Quebec?
What is 1940?
What term refers to the group of people eligible to vote in an election?
What is the electorate?