GRADE 8 HISTORY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. describes a government that is unable to pass any bills
 (new laws) Disagreeing parties cancelling out each other’s votes.
 Ie. 1860’s: Upper & Lower Canada.

3. regular citizens trained to defend the country & fight
 as an army only during emergencies.

7. a person acting for another, ie. a country’s representative
 at a convention or meeting.

10. Irish-American group with military experience from the
 American Civil War that attacked the province of Canada
 in the 1860’s. Wanted to create New Ireland.

13. the act of treating others unfairly / poorly. Being biased
 or prejudiced.

14. an organization of workers formed to improve its members’
 wages, benefits, working conditions, etc…

15. a grant or gift of $ used to support a company or person.
 Ie. The government helping students afford university.

18. describing a group who have no fixed residence, move from place 
to place usually seasonally & within a well-defined territory.

19. the practice of having an entire population voting on a
 government proposal instead of having elected officials decide
 on a bill that may become law.

20. general agreement, the majority of the group wanted to…





DOWN

1. 1 of the 3 kinds of aboriginal groups recognized in the Canadian
 Constitution. Mix of native American & French-Canadian ancestry.

4. Attempting to overthrow a country’s government that the person
 is a citizen of.

5. to change for the better.

6. an organized governmental body having the authority to make laws.
 Our provincial version meets at Queen’s Park in TO.

8. one who organizes, manages & assumes the risks of a business
 or enterprise.

9. a factory in which workers are employed for long hours at
 low wages & under unhealthy (often illegal) conditions.

11. the process of being absorbed into another culture; picking up
 another culture’s values, traditions, religion, language, etc…

12. a nation’s basic principles/laws. Determines the powers/duties
 of the government. Guarantees certain rights to its citizens.
 Highest law of the land.

16. to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with
 demands such as higher wages, safer working conditions, etc…

17. a self-governing nation of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  ie. Former British Colony.