Quebec's Independence Movement Vocabulary

Political Independence

• Quebec

• Autonomy

• Referendum

• Francophone

Term for the United Kingdom's 2016 vote to separate from the European Union

• Charles De Gaulle

• Seven Years' War

• Sovereignty

• Brexit

Leader of the French Resistance during World War II and later president of France

• Charles De Gaulle

• Quebec Act

• Province

• Brexit

French-speaking

• French and Indian War

• Sovereignty

• Francophone

• Autonomy

A political division, similar to a state

• Referendum

• Sovereignty

• Province

• Brexit

A predominantly French-speaking province of eastern Canada

• Quebec

• Seven Years' War

• Francophone

• Autonomy

1774 Act of Parliament permitting the citizens of Quebec to retain their French language and Catholic faith

• Sovereignty

• Province

• Quebec Act

• Referendum

A special vote on a specific issue

• Referendum

• Quebec

• Charles De Gaulle

• Brexit

18th century war between the major powers of Europe and the Ottoman Empire

• Seven Years' War

• Province

• French and Indian War

• Quebec

The right to self-rule

• Quebec Act

• Referendum

• Sovereignty

• Brexit