Key Terms for Socials 11
IDENTITY
Canada Council for the Arts
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Canadian Radio and Television Commission
(CRTC)
Massey Commission
National Film Board (NFB)
GOVERNMENT
Bill
British North America Act
Cabinet
Cabinet solidarity
Campbell, Kim
Constitution Act 1982
Candidate
Capitalism
Caucus
Communism
Conservative Party
Constituency
Constitutional monarchy
Democracy
Elections
Electoral District
Equalization payments
Fascism
Federalism
First Past the Post
Free vote
Governor General
Hansard
House of Commons
Ideology
Leader of the Official Opposition
Legislature
Liberal Party of Canada
Liberalism
Lieutenant Governor
Lobbyists
Majority Government
Making a law
Minister
Minority Government
New Democratic Party
Nomination
Order in Council
Party Discipline
Party platform
Party Whip
Patronage
Political parties
Premier
Pressure groups
Preston Manning
Prime Minister
Private Member’s Bill
Progressive Conservative Party
Proportional Representation
Amending Formula
Reform Party
Regional/Western Alienation
Representation by population
Representative Democracy
Residual Powers
Riding
Royal Assent
Senate
Social Credit Party
Socialism
Speaker of the House
Speech from the Throne
Tabulation
Voting
IMMIGRATION
Assimilation
Canadian mosaic
Chinese Exclusion Act
Head Tax
Immigration policy
Komogata Maru
Multiculturalism Act 1971
Point System
Post-war immigration
Pull factors
Push factors
Conscription Crisis 1917
Currie, General Sir Arthur
Enemy alien
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz
Gas warfare
Halifax explosion
Hughes, Sam
Hundred Days
Imperialism
Income Tax
Internment camps
League of Nations
Militarism
Military Voters’ Act 1917
Nationalism
Passchendaele
Prohibition
Propaganda
Reparations
Ross rifle
Serbia
Refugee Policy
SS St. Louis
Vancouver Riot
FRENCH – ENGLISH RELATIONS
“Maitre chez nous”
Bilingualism policy
Bill 101
Bloc Quebecois
Bouchard, Lucien
Bourassa, Henri
Bourassa, Robert
Charlottetown Accord 1992
Clarity Bill
Cross, James
Distinct society
Duplessis, Maurice
Elijah Harper
FLQ
Kitchen Compromise 1981
Levesque, Rene
Meech Lake Accord
Mulroney, Brian
Notwithstanding clause
October Crisis
Official Languages Act
Parti Quebecois
Patriation of the Constitution
Quebec Referendum(s)
Quiet Revolution
Separatism
Sovereignty Association
Trudeau, Pierre Elliot
War Measures Act
FIRST NATIONS ISSUES
Aboriginal Right to Vote
Aboriginal Rights
Aboriginal Self-Government
Aboriginal Title
Assembly of First Nations
Berger Commission
Cut-off Lands
First Nations
Indian Act
Land claims
Nisga’a Land Claim
Oka confrontation
Residential Schools
WWI
Armistice
Attrition
Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Casualty
Conscientious objector
Somme, Battle of the
Treaty of Versailles
Trench warfare
Trenchfoot
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Union Government
Veterans
Victory Bonds
Vimy Ridge, Battle of
Volunteer
War Guilt Clause
War Measures Act 1914
Wartime Elections Act 1917
Wilson, Woodrow
Women’s suffrage
Ypres
INTERWAR YEARS
“5-cent speech”
“Black Tuesday”
“Buying on margin”
“On to Ottawa Trek”
“Riding the rods”
Aberhart, William
Autonomy
Balfour Report
Bennett, R.B.
British Commonwealth
Byng, Sir Julien
Chanak Crisis 1922
Douglas, Tommy
Collective bargaining
Communism
Conservatism
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord
Ortona
Pearl Harbour
Propaganda
Rationing
Total War
U-Boat
Veterans
Victory bonds
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
COLD WAR & UNITED NATIONS
Avro Arrow
Berlin Wall
Bomarc Missile
Cold War
DEW Line
Diefenbaker, John
Gouzenko, Igor
Gulf War
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
Depression
Employment insurance
Equalization payments
Halibut Treaty
King Byng Crisis 1926
King, William Lyon Mackenzie
Laissez Faire
Medicare
Meighen, Arthur
Murphy, Emily
New Deal
Old Age Pensions Act
Persons’ Case
Protectionism
Recession
Recovery
Regina Riot
Relief payments
Rowell-Sirois Commission
Russian Revolution
Social safety net
Socialism
Soup kitchen
Statute of Westminster
Wilson, Woodrow
Winnipeg General Strike
Work camps
WWII
Appeasement
Arsenal of Democracy
Atlantic, Battle of the
Axis Powers
Benito Mussolini
Blitzkrieg
Borden, Robert
Britain, Battle of
British Commonwealth Air Training Program
Conscription Crisis 1944
Convoy system
D-Day
Dieppe Raid
Enemy alien
Fascism
Hitler, Adolph
Holocaust
Hong Kong
Howe, C.D.
Internment camps
Italian campaign
Japanese Canadians
Juno beach
Manhattan Project
Munich Conference
Netherlands Campaign
Human Rights
Iron Curtain
Korean War
NATO
NORAD
Peacekeeping
Peacemaking
Pearson, Lester B.
Rwandan Genocide 1994
Suez Crisis
Superpower
UNICEF
Vietnam War
Warsaw Pact
World Health Organization
GLOBALIZATION & ECONOMY
Branch plant
Economic disparity
GDP
Globalization
Industrial heartland
Infrastructure
Multinational companies
National Energy Program
OPEC
Primary industries
Productivity
Protectionism
Scarcity
Secondary industries
Supply and demand
Tertiary Industries
Traditional Economy
ENVIRONMENT
Agenda 21
Aquifers
Arable Land
Biodiversity
Boreal forest
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Desertification
Ecological Footprint
Ecotourism
Genetically modified plants
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Greenpeace
Groundwater
Kyoto Protocol
Non-renewable resources
Ozone
Permafrost
Protected Areas Strategy
POPULATION
Age structure
Census
Cohorts
Contracting population
Crude birth rate
Crude death rate
Demography
Demography Transition Model
Density
Dependency Ratio
Doubling time
Emigration rates
Expanding population
Exponential rate
Family Planning
Fertility fate
Immigration rates
Infant mortality rate
Net Migration rates
One child policy
Population density
Population distribution
Population pyramid
Stable population
LIVING STANDARDS
Bilateral aid
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Debt Reduction
Developed country
Developing country
GDP per capita
GNIppp
Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
HIV/AIDS
Human Development Index
Life expectancy
Literacy rates
Mega Project
Multilateral Aid
Newly industrialized countries (NIC)
Non-government organization (NGO)
Poverty
Prosperity
Shantytowns
Standard of living
Subsistence agriculture
Sustainable development
Tied aid
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
Renewable resources
Stewardship