Colonial America

Je me souviens - Legacies of 1763

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Monday, November 27

coming up

  • Midterm II - Dec 1
  • extra credit by Dec 1 please!
  • presentations Dec 4-11
  • papers due Dec 11 class time Blackboard

today's class

  • final presentations
  • immediate aftermath - Canada
  • immediate aftermath - Ohio country
  • long term realignment
  • why 1763?

final presentations

  • Dec 4-11 - schedule on Bb
  • attendance is part of your final grade!
  • 5-8 minutes - notes ok!
  • PPT/images optional - email night before
  • your main argument, 1-2 points that illustrate your point, the major thing that you learned

Peace of Paris - 1763

  • save Louisiana!
  • Canada vs. Guadeloupe - which is worth more?
  • what to do with Canada & the Ohio country?

Je me souviens

  • Expulsion of the Acadians - 1758-1764
  • legacies of Culloden - how are "uncivilized" groups dealt with
  • deportation to 13 colonies - indenture & high death rate
  • Cajun Louisiana

Pontiac's War - 1758-1766

  • pan-Indian resistance to British & Iroquois control
  • Gen. Jeffery Amherst's cost cutting & refusal to remove troops
  • white settler squatting on unbought land - previous wars
  • Neolin's revival - elements of Christianity
  • small pox blankets?

Proclamation Line of 1763

proclamation
proclamation

Proclamation Line of 1763

  • cease 18th century Indian wars
  • Iroquois condition of intervention in Ohio country
  • no white settlement past ridge of Appalachians
  • why did the colonies fight? why did the Iroquois fight?

Quebec Act - 1774

  • Canada self-governing - with no elected government
  • Catholics are British subjects - Church law has legal weight
  • Canada is everything west of Proclamation Line?!
  • first of Intolerable Acts

why 1763?

  • economic imperative of slavery & creation of race
  • colonial & European growth dependent on slavery
  • religious stakes of European conflict in North America
  • European dependence on Native allies
  • 1763: rearrangement of power balance

why history?

  • historians are careful readers and careful writers
  • change over time & historical context
  • how do people define themselves & others
  • how do we know what we know
  • research, evidence based argument, cultural context & clear communication