1. Towards Confederation

2. Quiz
Next Monday: Everything from Power & Countervailing Power till Contemporary Period
Know interest groups
Maps & Political Structures
Ways Power groups exerted authority & way countervailing power counteracted power

3. Recap Movement towards Confederation
Series of pushes to attain responsible government
1791 Constitutional Act
Lower Canada Rebellions
1840 Act of Union

4. Movement Towards Confederation
Act of Union, 1840
United Lower & Upper Canada
Problems with Legislative Assembly (still powerless)
Population difference (Canada East had higher population, so wanted more votes)
Leads to: Alliance
Lafontaine & Baldwin (both reformers during Rebellion), united to be more effective in persuading responsible government

5. Responsible Government
1846, Britain applied Free Trade Doctrine
No more protectionist policies, colonies had to compete with global competition
Colonies wanted more control over own domestic policies
Result: Canada granted Responsible government

6. Responsible Government
Francophone and Anglophone bourgeoisie used it to promote interest (economic development)
Wanted to ensure colony’s prosperity
Investing money: canals, railways
Opened New Areas of colonization
(to stop French emigration)
Government ‘tried’ attempsts at
‘bettering colony’
Gave a lot of power to Church to ensure control
of population (sick, poor)

8. Confederation Project
Reason: help solve political tensions, develop economy, unite territory (from fear of American expansion)

9. British North America Act, 1867
Canada became a constitutional monarchy
Became a federation with a federal government (united several colonies under the guidance of a single strong central state holding more power than the provincial governments)

10. Topics: People People: Antoinne Aime Dorion Monseigneur Ignace Bourget
Robert Baldwin
Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine
Lord Durham
George Brown
George Etienne Cartier

11. Topics: Events Constitutional Act Lower and Upper Canada Rebellions
Act of Union
1846 Free Trade Doctrine
British North America Act
Attainment of Responsible Government

12. Topic: Interest Groups
British Administration
French Bourgeoisie
Church
British Merchants
Political Group (i.e. Clear Grits, Parti Rouge)