Chapter 7 Flashcards
(36 cards)
Emigrant
A person who leaves their native country to establish a home and citizenship in another country (emigrant and immigrant describes the same person at different points in the process of moving between countries)
Demographic Change
Change in the characteristics of a population
Unemployment
Having no work
Famine
A shortage of food leading to stravation for many people
Cholera
A contagious diseasethat causes intestinal problems and dehydration
Quarantine
A place where people with a contagious disease are required to stay, to separate them from heathy people and to prevent the spread of disease
Reformer
Someone who seeks change-or reform-established rules and arrangements in society
Immigrant
A person intending to establish a home and citizenship in a country that’s not their native
Colonial governemnt
A government in Beliste in a colony and controlled by imperial power, such as Britain
Advise
to give advice
Democracy
A system of government in which citizens elect those who ruled them
Crop failure
Damage or elimination of a Food crop, such as wheat, because of drought, insects damage or some other natural causes
Boycott
To refuse something as a way to create pressure for change
Arms
Weapons
Amnesty
A pardon
Assimilate
To become part of a different culture group
Coalition
An alliance among different groups
Demographics
Data about the characteristics of a population such as number, origin and age
Anglophone
A person whose first language is English
Conquest
The British take over of new France in 1763, under which new France became the British colony of quebec
Insurrection
An attempt to overthrow on embellished government
Francophone
A persons whose first language is French
Republic
A system of government that does not have a monarch (usually a democracy)
Epidemic
Infection of a large population by disease