Unit #4 Key Concepts

Question 1

Responsible Government

Answer 1

A government that answers to the people rather than to colonial governors.

Question 2

Quiet Revolution

Answer 2

A period of intense social, political, and economic change in Quebec. During this period, which lasted from about 1960 to 1966, Quebecois began to assert their rights and affirm and promote their language and culture.

Question 3

Rene Levesque

Answer 3

Served as premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. In addition, he founded the Parti Quebecois, a political party that aims to make Quebec an independent French-speaking nation.

Question 4

Offical Languages Act

Answer 4

Gave English and French offical equal government languages in Canada.

Question 5

Pierre Trudeau

Answer 5

Canadian prime minster who made French an official language to appease Quebecois secessionists.

Question 6

Louis Riel

Answer 6

Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION.

Question 7

The Indian Act

Answer 7

Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations peoples (“status Indians”), first passed in 1876 and amended several times.

Question 8

Institution

Answer 8

an organization founded and united for a specific purpose.

Question 9

Patriated

Answer 9

Transferred from the control of the British government to that of the Canadian government.

Question 10

Equalization Payments

Answer 10

Revenues from federal taxes that are paid by the Canadian government to less prosperous provinces to ensure that public services are more or less equally available to all Canadians.

Question 11

Inhereant Right

Answer 11

Existing in an unseperational past

Question 12

Economic Nationalists

Answer 12

People who believe that a country’s businesses and industries should be protected against foreign interests.

Question 13

Official Bilingualism

Answer 13

Making two languages offical within a nation.

Question 14

Official Multiculturalism

Answer 14

Anti-Racism

Question 15

Bi and Bi Commission

Answer 15

Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism

Question 16

National Unity

Answer 16

One identity;shared values within a country

Question 17

1995 Referendum

Answer 17

Quebec Referendum

Second referendum to ask voters in Quebec whether they should proclaim national sovereignty or stay a part of Canada.

Question 18

Charlottetown Accord

Answer 18

An agreement on constitutional change made between the provinces and the federal government in 1990. It failed.

Question 19

Meech Lake Accord

Answer 19

A package of constitutional amendments that would define Quebec as a distinct society within Canada. Ultimently Failed.

Question 20

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer 20

Came into force on 17 April 1982. The only Charter of Rights entrenched in the Canadian Constitution.

Question 21

Aboriginal self-government

Answer 21

Giving aboriginal governments the same opportunity as Canadian governments.

Question 22

Constitutional Reform

Answer 22

Changing the constitution

Question 23

Civic Identity

Answer 23

Agreeing to live in a country by the consitiution