Unit 1 Nationalism Flashcards
a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. However, this term is often used synonymously with country.
Nation-State
devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country
patriotism
racial, cultural, or linguistic characteristics
ethnic
the power to control one’s own affairs
self-determination
the political authority to control one’s own affairs
sovereignty
the form of nationalism where the state derives political legitimacy from the active participation of its citizenry, to the degree that it represents the “general will. Aims to accept all current residents of a nation whatever their race, religion or language.
civic nation
Nationalism founded on shared culture, language, and ethnicity.
ethnic nationalism
between countries or nation-states
international
The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance
nationalism
an internal awareness shared by many.
collective consiousness
the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
bourgeoisie
First Estate- Clergy
Second Estate-aristocrats
Third Estate- common people
The Estates General
Geographic factors that shaped French Nationalism
famine, severe winter, drought, hail, high grain prices
Political factors that shaped French Nationalism
- National Assembly is created
- France becomes a secular non-religious republic
- rise of Napoleon
Document that abolished the traditional privileges enjoyed by the monarch, the clergy, and the aristocracy in France.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
allows the government to control most aspects of aboriginal life: Indian status, land, resources, wills, education, band administration and so on
The Indian Act
the sequence of events related to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers
Red River Resistance
a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people
North West Resistance ( Second Metis Uprising)
part of the Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada.
Frog Lake Massacre
a land dispute, over a golf course, between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada which began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990.
Oka Crisis
a Canadian Royal Commission established in 1991 to address many issues of aboriginal status that had come to light with recent events such as the Oka Crisis and the Meech Lake Accord.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
emerged from and replaced the Canadian National Indian Brotherhood and is an assembly of First Nations represented by their chiefs.
Assembly of First Nations
the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
aristocracy
The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group
assimilation
a form of Nationalism that aims to accept all current residents of a nation whatever their race, religion or language.
civic nationalism
nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry”.
ethnic nationalism
belonging to or characteristic of a particular region.
geographic
a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
imperialism
The free association of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds
integration
of or relating to language
Linguistic
movement from one part of something to another.
migration
of, relating to, or constituting several cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
Multicultural
An idea that is not embedded in the idea of nation. People may be loyal to and identify with family, friends, a region, an idea, a collective or a group, a way of life, and a culture.”
non-nationalist loyalties
the action of making one view or belief compatible with another.
Reconciliation
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision
Referendum
(in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class
sans-culottes
denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
secular
