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One event that precipitated this historical period was a four-month labor dispute between miners and the Denver-based Johns-Manville Company. Reforms during this period were influenced by an educational treatise called The Impertinences of Brother Anonymous. (-5[1])A party elected at the start of this period used the slogan “now or never / masters in our own house.” Politicians dubbed the “three wise men” covered an event that laid the groundwork for this period, the Asbestos strike, in the newspaper Le Devoir (10[1])(“luh duv-WAHR”). This (-5[1])period countered the preceding “Great Darkness,” (10[1])during which religious conservatism was enacted by Maurice Duplessis (10[1])(“doo-pleh-SEE”). For (-5[1])10 points, (-5[1])the 1960 election of Jean Lesage (10[1])(“luh-SAHZH”) has traditionally been considered the start of what period of upheaval and social restructuring in Quebec? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: Quiet Revolution [or Révolution tranquille; accept Silent Revolution; prompt on descriptions of a political revolution in Quebec or equivalents until read]
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