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 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