Upper Canada Rebellion

You might be familiar with the word “Rebellion” since some kid’s movies have scenes in which rebels plot a rebellion against an evil kingdom. But do you know other versions of rebellions? A rebellion is usually not the same in every case nor in every story. In the passages, “Cairo: My City, My Revolution”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and “Persepolis 2”, rebellion is presented in many forms and ways by the authors. To begin with, in the passage “Cairo: My City, My Revolution” the setting of the…

government, this is known as a revolt. For example, Nat Turner was a African American slave who started a revolt. He and his followers killed 60 white people including women, men, and children. During the Rebellion, 315 people died in total including slaves and people from the white descent. Rebellions are often caused to express your feelings toward something. In the reading, The Underground Railroad for Kids by Mary Cay Carson, it shows the Revolt that started with Nat Turner. I think that…

What is rebellion? The definition of rebellion is an action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention. In the civil rights movement, there are a lot of historical events that happen that shows people rebelling for a cause. For example Rosa Parks-New Spread and the Boycott of buses. For example in the book Red Rising when Eo and Darrow went up on the surface they got caught by the sliver Eo wanted Darrow to stand his ground. Like Rosa Parks Eo wanted to “break the changes”. The…

there too. After the French and Indian war, the British took over Canada. Even though the British did a good job of unifying the dominion, there was a huge group of French and English. Rebellions broke out because of the cultural difference of the English and French. The Red River Rebellion broke out between the upper and lower regions of Canada. The upper region was led by Mackenzie and the lower region was led by…

The War of 1812 was a military conflict between Great Britain and the United States that was fought from 1812 to 1815. Canada became involved due to the fact that they were a colony of Great Britain at the time and Canada had been invaded on multiple occasions by the United States. The war began because of conflict between Great Britain and the United States when Great Britain adopted economic sanctions that restricted American trade. Britain also infuriated the Americans when the HMS Geurriere…

that taxes were introduced into Canada in order to support the soldiers fighting overseas during World War I. However, the charging of taxes did not end when the war did. Canada continued to charge its citizens taxes after the war and until the present day. Taxes and the laws surrounding them affect almost every single person in the country of Canada, whether it be incorporated companies, organizations, legal representatives or the average working person. The Canada Revenue Agency, which…

discovered 150 years ago, we still do have our historical figures who helped shape what Canada has become today. The historical figures are being referenced are: Willam Van Horne, Clifford Soften, and Sir John A. MacDonald. While there are many notable people that contributed to Canada’s development, those three made the most impactful impression on those studying Canadian history. Without those three, Canada would not be where it is today, and in the case of John A. MacDonald, it would not be…

What fosters Canadian nationalism or at the very least- makes Canadians want to remain Canadian? Is it our unanimous love for hockey, our patronage of French and English or our role in the world? Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, writes in his book Federalism, Nationalism and Reason that ‘will’ rather than the aforementioned factors of geography, common language, common culture is the most critical to the ‘foundation of the nation’. He furthers his point by comparing…

completely enamoured with everything that Canada has to offer, especially when we have the…

The transformation and union of the colonies of British North America into the Dominion of Canada is referred to as the Confederation of Canada. The establishment was created in 1867 by the British North American Act. Before the creation of the confederation only the United States was an independent nation in the Americas. Canada, as seen in the map “Confederation in the Beginning: 1867-1873” consisted of privatized land owners, Rupert’s Land and the Northwestern Territories while British North…