Grievances+Against+the+British+(Upper+Canada)

Family Compact, and land use. Comparisons to class issues at centre of American Revolution (within colonial period: Loyalists, Canadian patriots, etc).MacKenzie and the rise of Newspapers. Public opinion - Mary O'Brien, Bishop John Strachan, G. Smith (author of //Canada and the Canadian Question// 1891).
 * Grievances Against the British (Upper Canada) (9) - Michelle, Mahalia, Macguire, Victor. Also Derek, Clayton, Jonathan the 9001st, and Supper.**

The British wouldn't give Upper Canada the kind of democracy that America had. Radicals (group of people unhappy with current government) wanted to see an end to British rule.

William Lyon Mackenzie used his newspaper to demand the end of the Family Compact (current government which involved several families having all of the social, economic and political power). All of the government officials were appointed, so the citizens had no say in anything that happened. He started an armed rebellion in 1837 because he was so unhappy about the amount of land given to the Anglican church and the way the Family Compact was running things. Because of him writing articles about these topics, people ended up trying to kill him and there was even an incident where a his printing press was thrown into a lake


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Michelle wrote as the secretary of state for the colonies asking the queen to consider giving the citizens more democracy. Macguire replied as the Queen, saying they don't deserve democracy. This must have been what the citizens of Upper Canada at the time felt like. They kept asking for more power, and the British always shut them down in every possible way.

"Deep frustration. Great depression. How I am longing for my life to be successful." "Obviously you would never agree to this because of the American Revolution, so there is a bit of a problem here." "I, Queen Victoria, do not care for your life or complaints. I am too important for you."