HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: United Empire Loyalist, Enclosure, Precondition
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Immigration, 1760-1850: paupers and other peeps, a pre-condition of liberal capitalism. The enclosure movement peasents were then booted off the now. Private property : europe shovels out its paupers. Some moved to big industrial cities where they encountered industrial capitalism if they couldn"t make it there they were pushed here. Britain at war with 13 colonies 13 colonies wons, americans stayed loyal to the british, shipped them to canada the the maratimes and shelbourne. Nova scotia, quebec , and where we are right now (upper canada: the loyalist myth: a conservative canada what was believed: The loyalist were ppl of high social stauts and anti democratic. Accept hierarchy and what the states dictate. Supposedly being aristocrats built political instutuion being elitists. In reality they were humble farmers and artizans. In terms of class and race they were very diverse: class and race: the loyalists in shelburne, ns. Shelourne founded in 1783 by united empire loyalists.