SS9 Mr BilAn Recalling from Last Class What had just happened to Quebec where we left of last class After the Fall Even though the fortress of Quebec surrendered in 1759 after the Battle of the ID: 619260
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Quebec and British North America
SS9 – Mr.
BilAnSlide2
Recalling from Last Class
What had just happened to Quebec where we left of last class?Slide3
After the Fall
Even though the fortress of
Quebec
surrendered in 1759 after the Battle of the
Plains of Abraham,
Canada did not
surrender
to the British until September 1760
In 1763, the Treaty of
Paris
was signed, which brought
peace
between France and Britain
But it also meant France
gave up
almost all of New France to EnglandSlide4
Before…
France had the
largest
area of control in North AmericaSlide5
…and after
France controls almost none of North America, except for
Haiti
and small islands of the coast of
NewfoundlandSlide6
Living with the Enemy
The French were not given much
input
into how they would be governed; they were still considered the
enemy
by the British
But the French did not expect many
rights
, they did not have a
parliament
like Britain did so they were unfamiliar with
democracy
Therefore, New France came under
military
rule at first.
Soldiers
patrolled cities and the most powerful person was a British
General,
Jeffrey Amherst
Many
feared
that they would be
deported
like the
Acadians Slide7
New Life For the Canadiens
After the Treaty of France was signed in 1763,
Guy Carleton
became the
civilian
governor of Quebec
He soon realized that he could not make the French
abandon
their
language
and culture, so he allowed them to maintain them
Under Carleton, he allowed Quebec to keep French
law,
maintain the
seigneurial
system and keep the
Catholic
church
Many British
governors
admired how the Canadiens handled British ruleSlide8
Native Resistance
However, the
Native
Peoples who had traded with New France were not as
peaceful
Rogue
French fur traders encouraged Natives around the
Great Lakes
to
resist
the British
Pontiac,
a powerful chief of the Ottawa, tried to
unite
the Native tribes to fight against the British
But he could not get
support
from the French, and he failed to defeat the BritishSlide9
The Royal Proclamation
Although Pontiac’s resistance failed, it forced the British to
rethink
their policy towards Native peoples
Britain issued a
Royal Proclamation
in 1763 that stopped
land speculation
west of the
Appalachian
Mountains
This pleased Natives, because they could live without
harassment
from the British settlers in the
13 colonies
But this
angered
the Americans, because they could not settle the fertile lands past the mountains
What event do you think this leads to in the future?Slide10
The Quebec Act
In 1774, Britain passed the
Quebec
Act, which made it a full
colony
This made the
Canadiens
happy, as it officially made many of the rights they had enjoyed under Guy Carleton
official,
keeping them
loyal
to Britain
But this further outraged the
Americans
, who were still blocked from expanding
west
They called this act
intolerable
, and is considered to be a direct cause to the
American Revolution