HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tyrant, The Elected, Protestantism
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George iii actively intervined in government but he is not an absolute monarch and if it really comes to it the king can be forced to accept a government he does not like. To complete the 18 provinces there is east and west florida. Within the terms of the treaty of paris . The big problem with qubec was that the population was divided between french speacking and catholic, French speaking and protestant and finally english speaking new arrivals. Catholics were excluded from the military and could not vote however most of these things would end uo changing. Minorca one of the islands captured in 1718 by britain and is the precedent of qubec in terms of organization. Qubec can not be run unless you involved the french speaking catholic population. Great britain was the most powerful protestant country and this is why the governers suggestions caused a nervous reaction to giing catholics civil rights.
