Assignment 9.5, Live Blogging

Grade 8s


-What were some of the causes of the Red River Rebellion?

-The English legal system allowed more individual rights than French settlers had
-Farmers needed roads more than canals
-The farmers objected to the use of tax money for canal building
-which favoured the businessmen more than farms
-Lower Canada concerned about losing their French culture and language
-Afraid to lose privileges given to the Anglican church
-most of the population were Catholic
- Violence broke out in Montreal
-Papineau's ideas became more radical and republican
- Government came to a halt
- assembly did not pass bills to raise taxes to pay for government salaries
- governor continued to have salaries paid without the legal right to do so
-Papineau's supporters became more radical
-Upper Canada the government was run by a few wealthy families (Family Compact)
-Ordinary settlers became frustrated with this form of government
-ideas for a different kind of government came from the democratic ideas of the United States
-new Reform movement that was taking place in Britain
-1837 rebels in Upper Canada planned an uprising
















-What were some of the causes of the Red River Rebellion?

-What were some of the effects of the Red River Rebellion?

-What would life for a Canadian look like, feel like and be like at this time in our history?