Definitions Flashcards
Intercolonial Trade
Trade between the BNA colonies
Duties/Tariffs
taxes on imported goods
External Trade
trade with countries and colonies outside of BNA
Colonial Preference
giving favoured treatment to colonial trade
Repealed
abolished
Free Trade
trade without duties or tariffs
Corn Laws
British laws that governed the import and export of grain; in Britain, cereal grains were called corn
Reciprocity
an exchange of privileges or favours as a basis for relations between two countries
Fenians
an Irish nationalist organization founded in the U.S. that encouraged revolutionary activity to overthrow British rule in Ireland
Exploit
to take advantage of someone or something for one’s own benefit
Manifest Destiny
the belief that the United States had a duty to take over the land of North America
Equal Representation
each region has the same number of elected representatives
Representation by Population
the number of elected representatives is determined by the size of the population in the region represented
Canadiens
Canadians of French descent
Proportional Representation
a voting system in which a political party gets the same proportion of seats in the government as the proportion of votes it recieved
