Across
- 1. a government that has no monarch and that is usually elected
- 2. a shortage of food leading to starvation for many people
- 7. migration many people who supported British rule left the Thirteen Colonies for the British colonies of Québec and Nova Scotia.
- 8. a system of government in which citizens elect those who rule them
- 9. the infection of a large population by a disease
- 10. damage or elimination of a food crop, such as wheat, because of drought, insect damage or some other natural cause
- 12. a place where people with a contagious disease are required to stay, to separate them from healthy people and to preven the spread of disease
- 15. an area of land set aside by treaty
- 16. a global war that took place between 1939 and 1945
- 18. statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it
- 19. the official set of rules about how a country is governed
- 24. weapons
- 25. power held by a tyrant, and power held by a majority in a democracy
- 26. first President of the United States
- 27. a person whose first language is French
- 29. to get, to make sure of
- 30. an extra charge, a tax
- 31. to become part of a different cultural group
- 33. Many First Nations people not to use the word Indian to describe themselves, except to identify those people recognized by Canada's Indian Act
- 34. control of a place or people by use of military force
- 35. to threaten
- 37. a government with an electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.
- 38. people opposed to the rebellion
- 39. the process of people establishing homes and citizenship in a country that is not their native country
- 40. the inability to describe on a course of action because of disagreement among equally powerful decision makers
- 42. a regulated economic system that made a country rich from its colonies
- 43. Depression the global economic slowdown that occurred between 1929 and 1939
- 46. a promise with legal backing
- 49. having no work
- 50. a contagious disease that causes intestinal problems and dehydration
- 51. a general pardon
- 52. unjust or unfair use of power
- 53. to ask for something in a formal way
- 54. government a government established in a colony and controlled by an imperial power such as Britain
- 55. leaving one's country to establish citizenship and a home in another country
Down
- 1. make an attack or assault in return for a similar attack
- 3. to owe money
- 4. a person intending to establish a home and citizenship in a country that is not their native country
- 5. people loyal to Britain
- 6. government that does not answer to an imperial power
- 11. a person whose first language is English
- 13. takeover of a territory by another country
- 14. the process of becoming part of another cultural group
- 17. to refuse something as a way to create pressure for change
- 20. a form of public humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge
- 21. an alliance among different groups
- 22. to give advice
- 23. a person who seeks protection in another country to escape danger in their own country
- 28. a rapid, often violent change in a system of government (from monarchy to republic, for example)
- 32. change in the characteristics of a population
- 36. to force
- 41. a person who leaves their native country to establish a home and citizenship in another country
- 44. expressing an opinion clearly and directly
- 45. someone who seeks to change - reform - established rules and arrangements in society
- 47. a school whose funds come from "public money"
- 48. a challenge to the authority of a recognized government