HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cui Bono, Gatling Gun, Corn Laws
14 Jun 2016
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The glory argument (romantic): were all romantics until it"s time to pay! Fear of american invasion: maybe this swayed a few votes, but the fenians were no threat and the. Us was busy fighting itself in the civil war and fighting native peoples. Dissatisfaction among english canadians with their ineffective united parliament which was often locked in a bitter stalemate: true, but this ignores the hypocrisy of rep by pop and suggest that what english canada wanted was what really mattered. Change in british attitudes: as indicated by the corn laws- the change was prompted by the change in the british economy to one of manufacture and export. The promise and debts of the age of rail: this was huge! Provinces that weren"t there were occupied by natives. 150,000 native children were forced to go to residential schools. Government didn"t embark on a war of extermination. Manitoba act of 1870 created the province of manitoba (postage stamp)
