Unit 2

Question 1

Cultural contacts

Answer 1

The interaction of diverse cultures and perspective, which may result in changes in values, beliefs, and traditions

Question 2

Depopulation

Answer 2

The reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation

Question 3

Displacement

Answer 3

The involuntary dispersal of a people, especially from their Homeland

Question 4

International trade

Answer 4

The exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people

Question 5

Mercantilism

Answer 5

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, a system of government-sponsored international business ventures designed to make European monarchs rich

Question 6

Capitalism

Answer 6

An economic system for increasing individual wealth, requiring a relatively free market, open competition, the profit motive, and at least some private ownership of the means of production

Question 7

Free market

Answer 7

A market in which government would regulate nothing and all businesses and property would be privately owned

There’s no such thing as a completely free market

Question 8

Entrepreneurs

Answer 8

People who take risks by launching business ventures in the hope of making a profit

Question 9

Communism

Answer 9

A planned economic system in which government owns all means of production and all people work for government owned and government run enterprises

Question 10

Exploitation

Answer 10

The use of a person or group for selfish purposes

Question 11

Industrialization

Answer 11

A stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shifts from the home and small craft shops to large factories

Question 12

Industrial Revolution

Answer 12

The combination of social and economic changes brought about by the extensive use of machinery and production, especially in great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries

Question 13

Cottage industries

Answer 13

An early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes

Question 14

Imperialism

Answer 14

An association between people that intentionally benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territories inhabited by indigenous or non-indigenous peoples, seizing land and resources through conflict and warfare, and imposing political control

Question 15

Eurocentrism

Answer 15

a belief that the European worldview is superior to all others

Question 16

Paternalistic

Answer 16

Characterized by treating or governing a people in a fatherly way, especially by providing for them without giving them rights and responsibilities

Question 17

Residential schools

Answer 17

Boarding schools for the acculturation and assimilation of Aboriginal students, run by religious groups or government from the 1830s to the 1950s

Question 18

Disaggregated

Answer 18

Divided into parts, as, for example, the first nations were divided from one another by the Indian act

Question 19

First Nations policing policy

Answer 19

,Policy put into effect by the Canadian government in June 1991, to improve the relationship between Aboriginal people and police by promoting safe and secure communities and providing first Nations people across Canada with professional, effective, cultural appropriate police services that are accountable to the communities they serve

Question 20

Subsidies

Answer 20

Financial help given by government to help support an industry

Question 21

Genocide

Answer 21

An act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group