This created problems for the British leaders as now police and soldiers had to be spread out more, and people thought that it would mean less protection for them, which causing civil unrest. Life in Canada continued as usual though, although now the French of Quebec had access to the southern
He wrote a petition that showed careful forethought expressing discontent with the treatment of the Métis, yet the government did not take immediate action. ( Ibid P.1) In addition, Riel staged the Red River Rebellion, and initiated this to protect his people from being manipulated and ill-treated. He showed endurance and was willing to defend their rights and make new conditions come into effect when no one else would. As the Métis’ homelands came gradually under the Canadian “realm of influence”, Riel sought to defend their rights and customs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel> P.1 As a result, Louis Riel is a Canadian hero for what he undertook as a Métis leader in the Northwest Rebellions, and should not have
They were chained and loaded on to ships. The trip was very hard because the slave trade was across the Atlantic Ocean. The slaves were chained together in the ship and were crowded and not able to move about. Diseases were very common because of the unhealthy conditions they were in, the crew would give food only to those that looked healthy and skipped the others, people were left chained and unable to get up and go toilet. When the slaves died they would still remain chained to the people around, until the crew would take away the body.
This started to cause a conflict because both groups looked down at one another. The common foot soldier for the British was the scum of Britain were as the soldiers of the colonies were more middle class individuals. Then the officers for the British army’s looked down on colonial officers because it was believed that they did not have the title they had. This was the first rivalry or feud between the two sides. As the war continued on Britain would eventually will the fight and take control of what was known as the Ohio River Valley as well as land in Canada.
The rest of the invaders were either deported to penal colonies or imprisoned. A policy of leniency was requested by the American government but met with contempt by British officials. In the fall of 1838, Robert Nelson and the Frères Chasseurs launched an invasion in Lower Canada with weapons
The Military service act was passed so the Canadian government could provide more troops to support its Allied countries. This decision can be argued as negative for a few different causes. First, Prime Minster Borden was elected on a policy that he would not imply conscription but when the Canadian military began to run low on soldiers he implied a conscription policy forcing able bodied Canadians from 20-45 to join the military. Another reason is that, this decision caused a conflict between French and English Canadians because Quebec did not feel compelled to help a country they weren’t tied to. Thirdly, after the policy was passed riots broke out in Montreal and Quebec City.
Borden knew the war could not be won without reinforcements and so he decided to pass the conscription bill. (Cruxton and Wilson, 118). In 1940, though Mackenzie King had promised no conscription, he passed the national resources mobilization act—this was conscription but only to protect Canada at home. But as war continued Mackenzie King was asked to send additional troops and just like in 1917 most volunteers were English, not French-Canadian. The English-Canadians sought after full conscription like Britain and the United States, while the French-Canadians still did not want any form of conscription.
Before the Civil War era, Columbus’ conquests for new lands lead to the genocide and enslavement of Arawak people who were obedient towards Columbus and his men. This quote from Howard Zinn, “Trying to put together an army of resistance, the Arawaks faced Spaniards who had armor, muskets, swords, horses. When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards.
Most of them were skinny and look very unhealthy their clothes look like they were made from rags it was just dreadful. I was disgusted by their appearances. The language they spoke was so different from ours I could hardly understand it. It were many slaves that we had no choice but to put them on deck which by the way is the worst part of the ship to stay. As days grew longer and the nights grew more mournful the weather started to get really bad.
Many of the unhealthy remained in bare wooden bunks just laying in their own filth the entire voyage because they were too sick to move or get up. A big problem was the lack of good drinking water because sometimes the water was stored in leaky old wooden casks, or in casks that previously stored wine, vinegar, or chemicals which contaminated the water and caused dysentery. The ship I was on ran out of water long before we reached America, making life miserable for fevered passenger’s that were suffering from burning thirsts. When I first came to America it was not what I expected. The ship I was on came to a stop in Boston, Massachusetts, an Anglo-Saxon city with a population of 115,000.