Chapter 7, Lesson 1
Completion requirements
Unit 2
Towards Confederation
Lesson 1
What were the most important factors that led to Confederation?
- democracy
- free trade
- manufacturing
- representative democracy
- representation by population

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Government is the way that societies organize themselves to make decisions and get things done.
Countries need to have ways to make decisions that affect millions of people.In Canada, we have a democracy, which means the people hold the power. Canadaβs government is a representative democracy, which means that citizens elect people to make decisions for them.