Social studies 20-1

Nation

Focuses around people or race, different from a country

Collective identity

A shared sense of belonging

Nationalism

Arises when a nation feels threatened, a shared sense of belonging, promotes acquiring large amounts of power

Nationalist

Individuals that attain power for their specific nation

International

Occurring between two or more countries

Linguistic nation

Languages help define them

Ethnic nation

Sharing of the same race, cultural, or linguistic background

Cultural nation

The way of life of people, helps shape identity

Religious nation

Based around the same understanding of one’s place in the world

Spiritual nation

shared sense of beliefs and traditions associated with the land

Geographic and land nation

Physical landscapes become barriers

Political nation

Sovereignty and self determination

Sovereignty

The political authority to control one’s own affairs

Self determination

The desire to have power and control over one owns affairs

Civic nation

Shared Beliefs and values

Charter of rights and freedoms

Canadians chose to embrace it, official language rights, rights to equality

Civic nationalism

When an individual abide by shared laws and can live together peacefully as equals

Ethnic nationalism

The idea that people who share the same ethnicity should become a nation state

Institutions

Influence the international community on how they see a nation

Divine right of kings

Idea that monarchies have been picked by god

Absolute monarchy

A monarch with total power

Age of Enlightenment

When people on France were beginning to revolt against the monarch

What factors led to the revolution

Social, geographic, economic, political, historical

Estates general

Representatives from each estate meeting to discuss and vote on issues in the French society, third class rose up as the National Assembly and established a equal rights constitution

Tennis court oath

Nation assembly swore that the third estate was the only one to represent the country

Reign of terror

Led by Maximilian Robespierre those who opposed the revolution got excuted

Napoleon Bonaparte

1799 Napoleon unified the French and brought order to the nation

Symbols of france

Storming of the bastille, liberty equality fraternity, red whir and blue

Boston tea party

The thirteen colonies rebelled against the British due to unhappiness

CPR

Canadian pacific railway a symbol of unity

Indian act

Act to assimilate First Nation made in 1876

Duncan Campbell Scott

Head of Indian affairs believed in assimilation of native Americans

Bill 101

Charter of French language

Bill 96

Official French common language act