User talk:Smartpeter14

During 1907’s French/English relationship -French Canadians	- largely working class (poor) - but their children were going to university and becoming educated -	their children had a growing sense of Quebec Nationalism through their education -	growing cultural identity- in music, books, artists -	Quiet Revolution led to artistic representations of Quebec cultures’ nationalism -	tied in with the American Civil Rights Movement (African Americans women) -	new political heroes like Rene Levesque

English Quebeckers	-	Made up most of the cultural elites’ business owners -	most French Canadians worked for English bosses -	the older elite (50s-70s) was very much against change -	they were the minority population but had considerable political and economic influence -	English Canadians had dominated business in Quebec for the past 200 years

Events (1960)	-	Jean Lesage elected Premier of Quebec (Liberal) -	began policies to reform and modernize Quebec -	“Quiet Revolution” -	made French the official language of business -	took over education from the Catholic Church and increased spending on science and math

(1963)	-	committed over 200 violent crimes -	Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) began a bombing campaign against English businesses

(1968)	-	Pierre Trudeau elected Prime Minister -	Believed strongly in Federalism and a united Canada -	Rene Levesque quit Bourassa’s Liberal government in Quebec and formed the PARTI QUEBECOIS (a separatist party)

(1968)	-	FLQ BOMBED THE Montreal Stock exchange injuring 27 pepl.

FLQ’s goal	-	to achieve Quebec independence through violent means -	copied terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland and Spain

-FLQ robbed banks to get money and raided military sites to get weapons -Threatened more bombings, kidnappings and murders