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World war 1
-The English Thought the French were not doing their part in helping out in the war
-The french were not interested in helping out Britain (The English) in world war one.
-The French didn't want to be associated with France or Britain. -
Conscription Theory
-The French did not like the thought of conscription because they didn't want to fight for Queen.
-The English Thought that the French were disowning them and lead to a lack of trust coming from the English -
Maurice Duplessis
-He was the 16th premier of Quebec.
-He claimed that quebec's problems were caused by the english speaking business man.
-Made all business leaders french in order to make Quebec powerful.
-He wanted to develop Quebec's natural resources in order to drive Quebec's economy. -
Richard Riots
-Happened on St.Patrick's day 1955
-He was suspended for a whole season suppository because of his french background.
-Started big riots in the street of Montreal. -
FLQ was founded
-National movement that was founded in 1963.Its main goal was to achieve quebec's independence
-The would do anything to achieve this goal even resorting to terrorism if necessary -
Official Languages act
-Was a law that gave french and english the same status in the government -
October Crisis
-The october crisis began on october fifth when the FLQ kidnapped James Cross and Pierre laporte
-They used the war measures act
-Pierre laporte was murdered -
Parti Quebecois victory
-The parti Quebecois defeated the Quebec liberal party
-There first bill was to make french the official language of Quebec -
Bill 101
-Law in Quebec saying french is the majority language
-Also made French the official language in government and courts in the province of Quebec -
Quebec independence attempt 1
-Rene Levesque proposed the "sovereignty-association"
-Took place on Tuesday may 20,1980 and the purposeful was defeated by a 59.56 to 40.44 percent margin -
The Night of the long knives
-1980 When Pierre Elliott Trudeau worked on bring Canada the Constitution
-Queen Elizabeth II came to Ottawa to proclaim the new constitution act on parliament -
Meech lake accord
-Meeting of all of the provinces to try and get Quebec into the constitution
-It failed and to this day Quebec is not apart of the Constitution -
Quebec Second attempt at independence
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Clarity act
