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Key concepts #5 Flashcards

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What is the difference between constituional and absolute monarchy?

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Constitutal they have a set of laws they must abide by and absolute does not

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Why did the charlottetown conference happen, and when and where did it happen?

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Happened because of the US civil war.. lead to wanting a unified country.. Happened in 1864 in PEI

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What did the charlottetown do?

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Reached 72 resolutions and guaranteed federalism (50 resolutions were made by sir John A mcdonald)

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What is federalism?

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Involves a federal budget, military, immgration and postal services.

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What is the quebec resolution?

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It was just the second half of creating the resolutions

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What was the british north american act based off of, when did it happen and what was odd about it

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It was based of the 72 resolutions.. happened in 1867, and PEI pulled out

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What did the british north american act acheive and restrict?

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It gave canada more autonomy and was technically a self governing colony within the bristish empire but could not make foregin policies.

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What led to the british north american act being abolished?

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WWI promoted feelings of nationalism, did not wanna be involved with the british empire

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What did the statute of westminister do and when did it happen

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It got rid of all british influence but gave britain the ability to change the canadian constitution this happened in 1931

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When did britain renouce their power to change canadian constitution

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1982

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What was important about sir john a macdonalds national policy

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He implemented protectionalism from 1878 to the second world war to sheild canadian industries from american industries

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who was the second prime minister

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William Lyon Mackenzie king

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How did our second prime minister win the election

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Promised to keep Sir john A macdonalds national policy

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Why was our second prime minister so important?

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He serves the longest unbroken term from 1896 to 1911.. he was a liberal party member who pushed for canadian unity, highly educated (PHD) and guided canada through 3 eras (prosperity, great depression and WW2)

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Who was Lester B pearson

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He was a minister in foreign affairs and later became prime minister

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Why was lester B pearson so important?

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He did not have a majority coalition but still got things done and intervened in the suez canal, he kept canada out of the vietnam war, helped build the medical plan and our flag

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What was the suez crisis

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A canal in egypt which was run by britain and france but eygpt took over and lester b pearson proposed to have the UN intervene and stay present in the canal to ensure peace

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Why was pierre elliot trudeau important? and how many times did he win the election?

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He made canada offically bilingual and he made the charter of rights and freedom. He won 4 elections

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Why did pierre elliot trudeau term end?

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Inflation got bad and people wanted change

20
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Who did people elect after pierre elliot trudeau

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Brian Mulroney

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What did Brian Mulroney do and why did his term end?

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He privatized a lot of companies and his term ended because of the recession therefore he resigned

22
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Who took over after Brian Mulroney

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Kim campbell -Our first and only female primeminister

23
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What happened to the parties in 1990?

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The rupture of the conservative party happened.

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What groups did the conservative parties split into?

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The reform party and the progressive conservative party

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What happened because of the split?

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Liberal won elections from 1990s to 2006 but ended because of a scandal

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When was the independance referanda?

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It happened in 1980 and again in 1995

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What was the independance referanda proposing?

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That quebec be a soverign state separate to canada but sharing economic/political partnerships

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What is the role of the house of commons? and how many members are in it?

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Propose bills and have 338 members

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What is the role of the senate and what is weird about them?

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The leader chooses the senate people, and have similar powers to house of commons and can technically reject and propose bills but they don’t because they are unpopular therefore keep a low profile to survive

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What is the senate composed of

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24 seats each in the Marytimes, quebec, ontario, west and others have 6

31
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What is the Indian act and when was it introducted

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to amend and consolidate the laws with indian people was introduced in 1876

32
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How many people are in the supreme court

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Composed of 9 justices

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What is different between the appoitment of canadian justices and us

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Canada, leader can just choose them and US congress gives advice and consent.

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