The demands and struggles of nationhood: Rebellions of 1837-38

Essential Question Suggestions:
Were the Rebellions of 1837-38 about nationalism or liberalism?
Why do we fight?

Learning Intentions
To describe the main events of the Rebellions in Lower Canada
To describe the main events of the Rebellions in Upper Canada
To compare and contrast the Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada

Suggested Cartograf Document and Mapping Task:
Students will organize available documents, in terms of time and/space. They can use the document collection entitled Rebellions of 1837-38 - Key Events and Different Rebellions or visit our student page at https://secondaryhistory.learnquebec.ca/1791-1840/rebellions-of-1837-38 for additional overview texts.

Students begin by reading through and selecting only the most relevant facts/documents for each of the two rebellions.

• Various blank timelines are available here that can be copied and altered for this task.
• Similarly, this Canva file for both rebellions can be copied and edited to work with this task.
• Teachers should Note that a Living Graph Timeline is also provided as part of the LES Rebellions of 1837-38 - Consequences.

-Using a mapping tool like Cartograf, students could locate key documents for facts/people/events and insert that information into points on their digital map.

-Students could compare maps of the two rebellions and explain the differences between the two rebellions in terms of people, location, causes, etc.

Click here to visit a sample mapping of some of the rebellion locations from the documents above.