Nationalism and Seperatism
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The Rebellions of 1837-1838 and the 1970 October Crisis were very similar conflicts, although so many years apart. Both conflicts were over the same core issue, which was the refusal to accept the French as a people into the majority anglophone population of Canada. The Rebellions were a result of the English Majority Government's total disregard for the French people's way of life. The French were thought of and treated as if they did not belong in Canada and were menaces to society. Eventually the French could not take any more and the Rebellions of 1837 started. Although the rebellion in Upper Canada was quickly overturned, the Lower Canada Rebellions did not because they were much more widespread and better led.
At first the Lower Canada Rebellions resulted in equal defeats for both sides, but towards the end the British defeated the French due to there large "military". It would be over a hundred years until the next major "Rebellion" would happen. The October Crisis of 1970 was a result of the FLQ's (militant French separatist group) attempt to scare the Government into making a Quebec a separate nation using terrorist tactics. They bombed countless places in Quebec and caused havoc everywhere in the Province...