HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Offshore Bank, Columbian Exchange, Landfall
Document Summary
French attack on english fisheries (canso): attacking the fishing settlements to acquire resources and also cut off these resources for the enemy first step to recapture nova. War between britain and spain because of the failure to regulate trade. The war of the austrian succession (between britain and france in 1744)- only served to intensify existing patterns of interracial violence. The most important idea that reached america was the proposal to move suspect populations within the british empire. This article highlights the influence of groups who came to the colony from elsewhere in the british and french empires. It begins with the attack from canso and proceeds with military response of new englanders and the impact of the imperial war on mi"kmaq and. French convincing mi"kmaq and acadians to move to ile royale. British wanted land in acadia because they had the best soil. Acadia is now pei, new brunswick, nova scotia, cape breton.