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Question 1

Census

Answer 1

an official count of the
population including information
such as occupation, gender, age,
religion, and ethnic origin

Question 2

Gold Rush

Answer 2

a mass movement to
an area where gold has been
discovered

Question 3

emigrate

Answer 3

leave one’s country to
settle elsewhere

Question 4

Crown

Answer 4

a symbolic term referring
to the monarch of a country

Question 5

nobility

Answer 5

members of the highest
class of society

Question 6

conservative

Answer 6

preferring what is
safe and familiar rather than
wanting change and risk

Question 7

political deadlock

Answer 7

a situation
where progress cannot be made
because the parties involved
do not agree

Question 8

republic

Answer 8

a system of government
that has no monarchy; all the
politicians are elected

Question 9

industrialize

Answer 9

develop industries,
especially manufacturing
industries

Question 10

capitalist

Answer 10

people who built and
owned businesses

Question 11

intercolonial trade

Answer 11

trade among
the BNA colonies

Question 12

duties/tariffs

Answer 12

taxes on imported goods

Question 13

external trade

Answer 13

trade with
countries and colonies outside
of British North America

Question 14

colonial preference

Answer 14

giving
favoured treatment to colonial

Question 15

repealed

Answer 15

abolished

Question 16

free trade

Answer 16

trade without duties or
tariffs

Question 17

Corn Laws

Answer 17

British laws that
governed the import and export
of grain; in Britain, cereal grains
were called corn

Question 18

reciprocity

Answer 18

an exchange of
privileges or favours as a basis for
relations between two countries

Question 19

Fenians

Answer 19

an Irish nationalist
organization founded in the U.S.
that encouraged revolutionary
activity to overthrow British rule
in Ireland

Question 20

exploit

Answer 20

to take advantage of
someone or something for one’s
own benefit

Question 21

Manifest Destiny

Answer 21

the belief that
the United States had a duty to
take over the land of North
America

Question 22

equal representation

Answer 22

each region
has the same number of elected
representatives

Question 23

representation by population

Answer 23

the number of elected
representatives is determined
by the size of the population in
the region represented

Question 24

Canadiens

Answer 24

Canadians of French
descent

Question 25

riding

Answer 25

the area represented by an elected official

Question 26

proportional representation

Answer 26

a voting system in which a political
party gets the same proportion of
seats in government as the
proportion of votes it received

Question 27

rederendum

Answer 27

a vote by the citizens
on a proposed government action