HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: American Revolutionary War, British America, Quebec Act
12 Jan 2017
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Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Week 7
The Revolution Of British America
Key Points
• Royal Proclamination, 1763
• Quebec Act, 1774
• American Invasion, 1775-76
• Peace of Paris, 1783
• Loyalists
• Constitutional Act, 1791
• Treaty of Ghent, 1815
Aftermath of the Conquest
• Pontiac’s Uprising (-65)
• 1763: Royal Proclamation
- Defined how French Canadians would be governed after British
rule
- Defined the boundaries that the British Colonies now called
Quebec
• Nation to nation treaty negotiation for land
• Turn Quebec into a standard British American colony
The Quebec Act
• Try to appease merchants in montreal and stop Anglo Americans to come
• Use Quebec to control increasing british colonies
• Components of Quebec act
1. The boarded was enlarged
2. Restored French Civil law and customs
3. Granted a degree of religious freedom for Catholics
4. Permitted Catholics to participate in public life
5. Denied an elected assembly
• The Quebec act was in intolerable act
Quebec and the American Revolution
• 1774: Beginning of American Revolutionary war
• 1774: Quebec declines invitation to participate in continental congress
• : the war officially begins…Patriots invade Quebec and take Montreal
• 1775: Montgomery defeated and killed Quebec
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Document Summary
Key points: royal proclamination, 1763, quebec act, 1774, american invasion, 1775-76, peace of paris, 1783, loyalists, constitutional act, 1791, treaty of ghent, 1815. Aftermath of the conquest: pontiac"s uprising ((cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:888)(cid:885)-65, 1763: royal proclamation. Defined how french canadians would be governed after british rule. Defined the boundaries that the british colonies now called. Quebec: nation to nation treaty negotiation for land, turn quebec into a standard british american colony. Quebec and the american revolution: 1774: beginning of american revolutionary war, 1774: quebec declines invitation to participate in continental congress, (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:889)(cid:887): the war officially begins patriots invade quebec and take montreal, 1775: montgomery defeated and killed quebec. Why did quebec reject the revolution: no serious american commitment to a full-scale invasion and occupation of. Quebec: significant of fur trade and economic linkages to britain, clerical and seigneurial classes supported the quebec act, ambivalent habitants, habitants remain neutral.
