BRITISH NORTH AMERICATHE GREAT MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN – 1815-1850

LONG TERM CAUSES (PUSH FACTORS)

Industrial Revolution – began 1750 Mechanized manufacturing & transportation of goods

Replaced cottage industries Factories needed less workers

Children changing bobbins in a cotton factory

Cotton mill in Salford, Greater Manchester 1800’s

NAPOLEONIC WARS – C’EST FINI!

Napoleon Bonaparte

After final defeat at Waterloo he was exiled to the Island of St. Helena

AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION ENCLOSURES ACT

Reduced amount of

“common lands” that people

could use

Forced to seek WAGE work

RESIDENCES for the WORKING POOR

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

advertised cheap land in the “colonies”

New Zealand, Australia, Upper Canada, Lower Canada, NB, NS, PEI, and Newfoundland

JOURNEY TO UPPER CANADA

Young hearts born with griefShall pay the penalty of truthA season of stolen youthShall teach old hearts to break

It feels like I've been here beforeHere to where the animals lay down to dieSo we stood alone on a distant storeOur broken spirits in rags and tatters

Nerve and muscle, heart and brainsLost to Ireland, lost in vainPause and you can almost hearThe sounds echo down through the agesThe creak of the burial cartHere in humiliation and sorrowNot mixed with indignationOne is driven to exclaimOh god, that bread should be so dearAnd human flesh so cheap[*]

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Young hearts are born with such griefWe have paid the penalty of truthA season of our stolen youthShall teach our hearts to break

Lyrics: A.A. NemtheangaMusic: MacUilliam and Primordial

THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

READINGS:• Horizons, Pages 23-25

LEARNING REFLECTION:

Reflect on what you learned from the PPT, and READINGS, by completing a mini-ONE-PAGER:

SS10 ONE-PAGERREAD the assigned section. Review the PPT & discussion. Then represent what you learned on a single sided paper. Should be clean and professional looking. Colour and artistic additions are up to you.

MUST INCLUDE:

TITLE: the Great Migration from Britain to Canada(1800-1850)• All the main people, OR groups involved• Two statements/sentences copied from the textbook that you found

particularly unique, or revealing, or just awesome• Two questions you make up yourself (plus the answers)• Some statistics (see the chart on Pg. 24)• One or two visuals that tie in to the topic• One KEY TERM to summarize this time in history in its entirety • A personal response/opinion/comment/connection. For instance …

This reminds me … I feel that … This makes me think …• YOUR NAME, BLOCK, & DATE

VOCABULARY TERMS

KEY TERMS & DEFINITIONS FOR ONE-PAGER:

• Upper Canada

• Lower Canada

• Coffin Ship

• Tenant Farmer

• The Six Nations

• Anglophone

• Steerage, Cholera