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Social Studies Grade 9 Midterm Review Flashcards

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Young Offenders

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Young people who Commit Crimes.

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Why was the Indian Act so Important?

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Because it allowed the Government in alot of the Indian’s control like control over land and control over the Indian’s status.

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Mobility Rights

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Allowed everyone to be equal even if you couldn’t walk to be treated the same as people who can walk.

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Francophone

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People Who Speak French

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Anglophone

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Speaks English

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What Is The Difference Between Anglophone and Francophone?

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Anglophone speaks English
Francophone speaks French
We Have Both In Canada

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Scrip

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It Is A Form Of Credits

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Why Were Scrip So Important?

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Because They Were Like Pay Checks

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What Were The Problems with Scrips?

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People Didn’t know that they were really valuable

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Inuit

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Indigenous People Who Live in the Arctic.

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Sovereignty

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Supreme Power or Authority

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Know Treaty 6,7,8

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Alberta is Covered in All of These Treaties

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Know Indian Act

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Registered Indians Under The Act

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Assimilate

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Take in Cultural, Ideas and Understands Fully

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Official Language Communities

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Are Groups of People Whose Chosen Official Language is Not the Majority Language in Their Territory, or Province.

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Autonomy

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The Right of Self Government

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What Were The Problems with Scrips?

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People Didn’t Know That They Were Really Valuable

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Govern

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Conduct The Policies, Actions, and Affirms of a State or People

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Legislative Branch

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A Branch Which Allows Them Powers to Make Laws.

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Popular Vote

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Winning a Vote With More Votes

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Supreme Court

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The Highest Judicial Court in a Country or State

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Bill

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A Proposed Legislation Under Consideration by a Legislature.

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Governance

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The Action or Manner of Governing

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Judicial Branch

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Interprets and Applies Laws

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Minorities

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A Category of People Who Experience Relative Disadvantages.

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Accountable

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Reliable like They can Count on You to get the Job Done on Time.

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Law

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A Set of Rule’s Put into Place

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Government

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A System to Govern a State or Community

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House of Commons

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Lower Chamber in Ottawa

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Senate

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Upper House of The Parliament of Canada

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Civil Service

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Serve as The Staff of The Canadian Crown

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Constitution

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A Body of Fundamental Principals According to what Every State.

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Prime Minister

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Leader of an Elected Party/Group

Makes All of the Decisions

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Representation by Population

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More People Chosen You The More Seats you get in The House Of Commons.

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Federal Accountability Act

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Bill C-2

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Slogan

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The Motto of Your Group or Company

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Executive Branch

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Makes sure that everyone is following the laws/rules put into place so in forcing the laws.

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Constituent

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Being Part of A Whole.

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Judges

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A Group of People Given the Power to Say if the Victim Did it or Not.

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Watchdog

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A Dog that is Kept to Guard Private Property.

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Lobbyist

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People Who Protest Against Something

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Fair and equitable

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Just and Right

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Criminal Record

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A Record Given to you if you do a Crime

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Jury

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A Body of People Who Get a Voice in the Case Usually 12 people.

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Defence

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Protecting a Person or Thing

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Justice

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Behaviour or Treatment

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Sentence

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A Punishment

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Youth Criminal Justice Act

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Helps Get Kids Back onto the Streets after doing a Crime

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Prosecution

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Conducting legal Procedures against someone in respect of a Criminal Charge.

50
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Justice System

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The Delivery of Justice to Whom Every Committed a Crime.

51
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Rehabilitate

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Working With The Kid to Find Out Why He Did It and Getting them back onto the Streets.

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Jury Duty

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Doing A Punishment After a Crime that you Did.

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Sequester

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Isolate or Hide Away.

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Legislation

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Laws

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Reintegrate

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Restore to a Position as a Part Fitting Easily Into a Larger Whole.

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Elizabeth Fry Society

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Works on Issues Affecting Women and Girls in the Justice System.

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Criminal Code of Canada

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A Law that Codifies most criminal offences and Procedures in Canada.

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Community Service

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Helping the Community After being told by Judge (Usually After A Crime)

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Legal Rights

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The Right to be Innocent Until Proven Guilty, The Right to have a Fair Trial in Court.

60
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Labour Unions

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An Organised Association of Workers often in a Trade or Profession.

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Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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It Forms The First Part of Canada’s Constitutional Act.

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Equality Rights

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Allows Everyone to Be Equal with Rights that are Against and Protect us from Everybody Else’s Rights.

63
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Fundamental Freedoms

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Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Belief, Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Freedom of Association.

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Democratic Rights

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Everyone Living in a democracy have Guaranteed Rights and Freedoms.

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Suffrage

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The Right to Vote in Political Elections.

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Internment

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The State of Being Confined as a Prisoner.

67
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Affirm

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Stated as a Fact, assert strongly and publically.

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First Nations

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First People to Come and Found Canada

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Reserve

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A Piece of Land For First Nations to Live and Work on.

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Residential School

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A School That is Really Close to Your House.

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Publically Funded

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The Company/Organisation Funds it with the Help of Everybody

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Collective Identity

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Shared sense of Belonging to a Group.

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Numbered Treaties

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11 Treaties Signed by First Nations.

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Entrenching

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Establish an Attitude or Belief

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Collective Rights

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Rights Held By A Group.

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Official Language Minority

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A Language that is Spoken from a Minority of the Population of a Territory

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Métis

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A Combination of Inuit and First Nations

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Patriate

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Transfer or Control of an Object or Country or Territory.

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Ethnocentrism

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The Act of Judging Another’s Culture.

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Amendment

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a minor change designed to improve the text.

81
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How Does A Law Become A Bill?

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The legislature first than goes to the Judicial Branch and then it goes through the executive Branch

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