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Road to Confed
FA Grade 10 Socials Road to Confed
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Union | uniting of groups of people or territories into a single unit |
| Tariffs | tax applied to trade goods leaving or entering a country |
| Finance | has to do with money |
| political deadlock | inability to move forward so the ruling party is not able to make decisions and are not able to rule. Everything is deadlocked -stuck. |
| riding | a Canadian term for an electoral district - Canada has been divided into ridings, or election areas for people to be able to vote for their government representative |
| 'rep by pop' | representation by population - a system where each area of voting has the appropriate number of ridings based on the population of the area - as an area becomes more populated, it would need to have more ridings |
| party | political organization or group with a specific ideological belief - each party has their own beliefs and people often vote for a party because of the beliefs of the party. |
| Coalition Government | joining of two parties to form a ruling government |
| Fenians | Irish immigrants in the USA fighting to free Ireland form British rule. |
| unanimously | 'everyone' has voted for something - there is no opposition in the vote |
| Royal Assent | new government laws made official by the monarch (king or queen) or by the Governor General - Royal Assent is given by placing a royal seal or stamp onto the document which has the new law writtn on it. |