HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Edward Blake, John A. Macdonald, Susanna Moodie
18 Sep 2016
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Drinking in the 1800s: excessive drinking, nobody is drinking water juice is available for the rich only, drinking beer all the time, #1 alcoholic beverage for choice. Scott act first piece of prohibitionist legislation passed by the fed gov after confederation: alexander mackenzie passed this act. National policy speech: speech that resurrects the career of our first prime minister sir john a. Macdonald: national policy is like protectionism, an hour and six minutes he talks terrif for our manufactures. Election of 1878: 134 seats to 65. Lack of economic prosperity: number 4, canada"s growing slowly in the 1870s and 1880s. Nw rebellion: number4 took place in 1885, show tensions that exist in canada between french, roman catholic metis and the federal government, rebellion in march 1885 and last 3 months, divides canadians. Execution of louis riel: number 4, divides nation: french vs english, french: life imprisonment, english: hanging.
