HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nellie Mcclung, Social Gospel, Separate Spheres
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Who led resistance movements against canadian imperial expansion in the west in both 1869 70 and. 1898 prohibition plebiscite: plebiscite means referendum. Reform movements: groups of individuals who sought to do change in society in some different matter. Increasing urbanization, although it was rural up to the 1900s. Technological innovation: electricity, the automobile, the railway. Sense of social upheaval: concerns were about the broader society, not just the individual. Anxieties over gender roles: also changing roles within families. Christian: moral reform movements tended to be focused on catholic moral values. Involved changing political movement of women in 19th & 20th centuries. Rescue canadian society: missionary sense of rescue. Alcohol consumption: anxieties surrounding alcohol consumption around the country (specifically the increase) Poverty: were alarmed by the rates of poverty, related to people who were wage dependent. Child welfare: lot of it tied with children working in the economy.
