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Unit 1 terms Flashcards

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Nation

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Refers to a shared way of life and people who self-identify as belonging to that group. (doesn’t have borders)

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Dissent

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typically referring to an opinion or perspective that is a non-agreeable sentiment.

Someone disagreeing with laws or poltical statments.

Expression of opinions that disagree with the law

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Elements of collective identity

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Language (contributes to a shared worldview and mental universe and sense of nationalism), ethnic, spiritual, cultural, religious, geographic, and political.

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Sovereignty

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Having the technical political authority to officially exercise this control (of a collective identity)
* Without interference or international influence*
-> Having control over conditions within a nation.

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Civic Nation

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A group of people who agree to live according to particular values and beliefs expressed as laws. (civic always refers to citizen)

-Religion and culture are mainly irrelevant there can be a variety of different practices and still be a civic nation.

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Civic Nationalism

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suggests that a sense of nation emerges out of the creation of a formal nation-state.

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Ethnic Nationalism

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A group with a shared ethnic/cultural background might seek to form their nation-state.

Members have the same religion and cultural background.

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French Revolution: First Estate

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-Clergy (religous leaders)
-Paid no taxes
- 5-10% of land
- 2% of people

Can not move estates you are what your born into.

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French Revolution: Second estate

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  • Aristocrats (higher class people with hereditary rank and titles)
  • Nobels
  • Exempt from most taxes
    -Related to France
  • 20-25% of land
  • 1% of population
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French Revolution: Third estate

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  • Common people
  • Rural peasant farmers

-Educated people such as doctors

-Included a growing urban middle class of educated and successful professionals known as the bourgeoisie (more well-off and successful but can’t advance to the next estate)

  • 40-45% of land
  • 82-87% of people
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Causes of the Revolution

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War = France had been fighting for many years which contributed to huge money loss.

Royal extravagance = Money being wasted by the royal family

The Enlightenment = Led to new ideas about the importance of the individual and people started to question the royal family.

American Revolution = Showed people they could overthrow their Monarch.

Poor conditions = people wanted a better lifestyle and starvation and poverty rates were high

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French Revolution: Estates Generals

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Parlimaentary style meeting of repersentitives from estaes 1,2,and 3.

Each estate had one vote so the third estate could eaisly be out-voted

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Rights of men and the citizen

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The king ordered the nobility and clergy to take part in the national assembly which created the declaration of the rights of men.

Included
- All men are equal before the law
- Freedom of speech, religion/opinion, assembly
- Taxation was to be more evenly distributed.

  • Granted civil rights to some commoners.
    (This didn’t do much to address poverty or conditions for the peasants)
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Two sides of the declaration/ Right wing and left wing

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Right-wing = Reactionaries who wanted an absolute monarchy
- Opposes all change
- Uses violence

Left-wing = Rebublic who wanted to overthrow and start again. Wants to complete change in government and is not afraid to use violence.

(After this Louie is executed)

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Committee of Public Saftey and the Reign of Terror

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Led By Robespierre
- Any moderate leaders who opposed this shift in government were arrested.

This led to the Reign of Terror where people were executed based on what they supported said /thought about the shift in leadership.

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Canada is what kind of nation

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Canada is a civic nation because there are many different cultures and religions throughout. Not an ethnic nation who are joined with religion being a main value.

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nationalist loyalty

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Closely connected with patriotism

May be expressed through drastic actions such as fighting in the armed forces or more common actions such as celebrating a national holiday.

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Contending loyalties

How do people reconcile contending loyalties?

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Loyalties that compete or conflict with each other

Often forcing an individual to choose between them.

People’s loyalties affect their decisions (deciding to go to war). Depending on people’s commitment levels and where they feel they belong. An individual can feel they belong to more than one nation and can balance their loyalties without them contending.

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Multiculturalism / cultural plurlism

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The belief is that unique cultural identity should be promoted and preserved.

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Reasonable accommodation

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The legal concept that requires Canadian public institutions to respect and adapt to religious/cultural practices as long as it doesn’t violate other rights and freedoms.

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Bill 101

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English had become the dominant language of business in QB.

Parti Quebecois - Rene Levesque elected

Bill 101 passed and included
- French as an official language
- restrictions signs
- preserving francophone culture

Many anglophones leave QB and relocate their head offices to Toronto

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Nation-state

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Where the cultural borders of the nation match the actual borders of the state.
Ex: Iceland: independent and has a unique cultural identity that isn’t found anywhere else.

sovereign state where citizens are similar in areas such as language, values, or common dissent.

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Difference between a nation and a nation-state

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Nation: a shared way of lifestyle including values, history, politics, and language. People who identify as belonging to that group.

Nation-state: Where the cultural borders of the nation match the actual borders of the state. Ex:

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What does nationalism give people?

How does it shape your identity?

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a sense of belonging which becomes a part of their identity. Ex: they promote nationalism by being proud to be from Canada or participating in nationwide celebrations.

Nationalism gives people something to support and take pride in.

Completion promotes supporting your nation.
Ex: Being a fan of your nation’s hockey team. Your favorite hockey team may be infulenced by your loyalty towards your nation.

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Constitution

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(Rule book for a state)

Many written constitutions help to preserve elements of national identity.

-Rules so we don’t lose nationalism or weaken it

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Federalists

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Belief in shared control

Someone who believes in the type of political system in which states share control over central government.
(Considered nationalist)

Ex: Canada has a federal-style government with a federal governement and provincial government.

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Ideology in nationalism

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Nationalism IS an Ideology that prioritizes loyalty, devotion, and allegiance to a nation that is stronger than other loyalties.

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Royal Commission

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  • The findings of the Royal Commission led the federal government to issue a statement of reconciliation in 1998.
  • The Royal commission identified the use and control of land. the commission called on the government to change its approach to Aboriginal land claims.
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Segregation and alienation

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Segregation: the action of setting apart someone/something from others.

Alienation: Being isolated from a group where you should belong.

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Self-determination

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  • A group having the right to govern themselves and handle their own affairs.

The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms alliances with its government.

Ex: Quebec wanted to be separate from Canada they wanted to form their own government but had interference from other parties and government so they were unable to make the changes they wanted to.

(sovereignty can be gained through self-determination)

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Difference between sovereignist and sovereignty.

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Sovereignty: the authority for a state/nation to make decisions and control.

Sovereigist: A person who supports Quebec’s right to self-govern in full independence.

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Estates General

(More than one)

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Parliamentary style meeting of representatives from the three estates.

  • The 1 & 2 estates could easily outvote the third which was most in need.
  • Caused conflict between estates
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National Assembly and the Tennis Court oath

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(Just the third estate because it makes sense because they are in the early stages of developing nationalism, collective identity, and a united voice.)

The nation was made up of the third estate.
Related to the Tenis Court Oath which was a meeting of the national assembly to agree to keep meeting until they secured an equal vote and right of freedom of speech for all men.

So important because this was the first time the third estate officially opposed the power of the monarchy

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Collective conscious

How can people feel connected to a histroical event?

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(how people can feel connected to events that they weren’t present in a

  • People may feel connected to a significant historical event because it is part of what shaped the united community they are a part of to the day) Something significant like the storming of Bastille displayed an early time when people had a shared hardship which pushed them to create change.
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Why was Napoleon’s era significant to nationalism?

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Napoleon was the first empower of France. One of the greatest military generals.

  • Napoleon promoted nationalism upon the ideas of the French Revolution. He was passionate about creating change within France nad believed that the people could achive the purpose of the french Revolution.
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The Boston Tea party

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  • They were taxing tea heavily so they protested and threw it into the Boston harbor.
  • This displayed nationalism by the people showing they had a shared vision and struggle so stood up to make a change together united.
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What is essential to a nation

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Having a shared view.

Identifying with belonging to that community.

A level of allegiance, and dedication to the wellbeing of the nation.

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What is a mental universe?

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(common language)
Meaning one another can transparently communicate their opinions without filling the gaps of a language barrier.

It is shared and unified when the voices come together to share a common goal.

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What is the importance of national symbols and myths

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They are important because they help people connect their sense of self to the others in their nation. Gives people in a civic nation a common background in a way, they may not have the same ethnicity religion, or culture but they can connect to their national symbols myths, and stories.

National myths allow people to develop a story about their history, and be able to share a sense of identity with one another.

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Non-National loyalties

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Non-nationalist loyalties are not related to a specific nation and are not embedded in a nation. More separate/more personal/ more unique.

Non-nationalist loyalties may include loyalties to family, friends, businesses/companies, personal political, personal geographical, and social classes or groups.

Ex: People’s loyalties towards their political ideologies may conflict with their feelings of nationalism. Ex: Americans who are anti-Trump may contend with their feelings of nationalism. Depending on the individual and where their nationalist loyalties lie.

Everyone’s identity contains individual and collective loyalties.

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Regionalism

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An ideology that focuses on the issues and interests of a specific region and attempts to increase the influence the region has to start movements or sovereignty, independence, etc

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Sovereignty simplified

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The freedom from foreign influences
. Having the political authority to make decisions for a nation.

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Rule of Laws

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The principle that no one is “above the law”
All citizens are responsible for following the laws
Laws are meant to reflect the values and beliefs of the nation.

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Elements of collective identity: Geographic features

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Can serve as barriers separating different groups of people.
This can lead to the formation of distinct nations.

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Through self-determination, you can gain sovereignty

(they can do it their selves, but others can influence)

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Self-determination is when a nation determines its statehood and forms alliances with its government. They can make their own decisions and handle their affairs through shared alliances With international influences

A self-determined nation can gain sovereignty which is the official political authority to make decisions and care for a nation’s state without international influence.

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Elements of collective identity: Religious and spiritual beliefs

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Can be the basis of a sense of nation and can be a common shared value and comes with shared practices and views.
Ex: Jewish population in Isreal

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Elements of a collective Identity: Political understanding.

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(Related to self-determination)

Right of a group of people to make their own decisions and control their affairs.

48
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French Reveloution timeline

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1) General estates had a meeting with all estates that started a disagrement over equal taxes.

2) This heated disagrement leads the third estate to declaring themselves the national assembly and then have the tenis court oath to continue to meet until change.

3) The storming of bastile. The king urges the other two estates to join there meeting.

4) The declaration of the rights of men and citizen was established. This document shared enlightment about the importance of the indivual.
Granted
- Freedom of speech, assembly, and opinion/religon
- The right that all men were equal before the law
- And decared more equal taxation.
(Was an act that declared rights for some commoners and did not do much to adress the commoners poor conditions.

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Why was the French Revolution an important event to all countries in Europe?

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Because it gave a new social structure and a new way of approaching government and leadership. It was a more unified and equal community compared to before the revolution and allowed all citizens to feel a new sense of connection to their home/nation.

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How does land influence a person or a group’s development of a nation?

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Geography may isolate a group to live in close proximity and develop shared characteristics.

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