HIST 101 Study Guide - Egalitarianism, Joseph Howe, Empty Spaces

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 101
• Professor: Willeen Keough

Document Summary

Push factors (reasons that push one to leave their country) - landlord oppression : raised rents to get rid of people for further industrialization. - religious discrimination : catholics and protestants from different sector. - commerce, timber trade in new brunswick , shipbuilding, agriculture. - immigration was easy: timber in new brunswick exported to britain, empty spaces for immigrants on the way back mostly went to nova scotia and pei commercial economy, 1815-1860s. - womens" informal power: within household, women were contributing a lot, and had more influence than public thought they had. - disliked hierarchical structures, individual communication with god. Schools, newspapers, charities, mission--- work of churches, govt not involved yet. - conservatism: small elite holding power and property. - liberalism: power for all men of property, still a small group, but not as small as conservatives. - egalitarianism: more inclusive democracy, equality for every man, regardless of how much property they own.