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26 Cards in this Set
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Inflation |
The rise in prices for goods and services that increases the cost of living and trigger demands for higher wages |
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Winnipeg general strike |
Massive strike by workers in Winnipeg in 1919 |
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Collective bargaining |
Negotiation of a contract between unions and management regarding such things as wages and working conditions |
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One big union |
Canadian syndicalist trade union active primarily in the western part of the country |
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Probihition |
The banning of sale and consumption of alcohol |
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Plebiscite |
A direct vote by electors on an issue of public importance |
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Primary industry |
An industry that deals with the extraction or collection of raw materials, such as mining and forestry |
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Secondary Industry |
An industry that deals with manufacturing and construction |
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Group of seven |
A group of Canadian landscape artist In the 1920's |
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Famous five |
Five Alberta women who fought for the political status of women |
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Persons case |
A case in which the famous five successfully fought to have women declared "persons" under Canadian law in 1929 |
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Emily Murphy |
Was a Canadian women's right activitist, jurist and author |
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Assimilation |
Adoption of another cultural group so that the original culture disappears |
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Aboriginal title |
Claims by aboriginal people to lands that their ancestors inhabited |
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Cut off lands |
Lands taken from the reserve without consent of the aboriginal |
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Federalism |
A political system that divides power between federal and provincial legislature |
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Regionalism |
A concern for the affairs of one's own region over those of one's country |
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Free trade |
Trade between countries with tarrifs, export subsidies or other government intervention |
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Old age pension act |
An act passed in 19th to provide social assistance to those who people over 70 |
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Chanak crisis |
The Canadian governments refusal in 1922, lead by king, to support British troops in defending the Turkish point of chanak. First time Canadian government did not support British military |
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Halibut treaty |
A 1923 treaty between Canada and the US to protect halibut along the Pacific coast, the first treaty negotiated and signed independently by Canadian government |
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King byng crisis |
A situation that our we in 1926 when governor general byng refused prime minister kings request to dissolve parliament and call an election |
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Imperial conference |
A meeting of the leaders of the countries in the British empire |
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Balfour report |
The conclusion if the 1926 imperial conference that acknowledge that Canada was an autonomous community within the British Empire |
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Statue of westminister |
The law that change the British Empire to the British |
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British common wealth |
An association of nations that were former colonies of the British empire |
