Vocabulary

Question 1

Amnesty

Answer 1

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses

Question 2

Assimilate

Answer 2

when an individual or minority group loses its original culture when
absorbed into the dominant culture

Question 3

Bilingual

Answer 3

Canada is a bilingual country with two official languages: French & English

Question 4

Collective identity

Answer 4

rights that protect the language and culture of groups within society

Question 5

Internment

Answer 5

imprisoned in camps

Question 6

Manitoba Act

Answer 6

In 1870 Canadian Parliament made Manitoba the 5th province of Canada

Question 7

National Policy

Answer 7

the government policy (by Macdonald) to promote Canadian industry, a transcontinental railway and to encourage people to settle in the west

Question 8

Recruit

Answer 8

to enlist someone or seek them out to join your group

Question 9

Reserve

Answer 9

land set aside for indigenous tribes to live on and practice their way of life

Question 10

Residential school

Answer 10

a type of boarding school that indigenous children were sent to in order to make them assimilate to the European ways

Question 11

Resistance

Answer 11

the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument

Question 12

Rural

Answer 12

relating to the countryside or agriculture; areas of low population density

Question 13

Suffrage

Answer 13

The right to vote

Question 14

Treaty

Answer 14

a signed agreement between two nations

Question 15

Urban

Answer 15

an area of high population density; a city