HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Status Quo Ante Bellum, Thirteen Colonies, Quebec Act
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Pre-loyalists: non-francophone settlers in british north america who arrived before the loyalist migration in 1783-84. Scotia and new brunswick. proprietors: see absentee landlords. Province of quebec: created by the act of proclamation (1763), included lands from detroit to the gasp but removed the ohio valley and the west from quebec"s (canada"s) control. Quebec act (1774): also called the british north america act, 1774 (not to be confused with the british north america act of 1867); the legislation that restored the. It recognized the rights of seigneurs and irritated the thirteen colonies where it was seen as cheating the. Appalachian colonies of their prize in the ohio. It was grouped with the other intolerable acts. As the colonies had no representatives in parliament, the colonists maintained that they could not be taxed. Tories: associated with loyalists in the american revolution whose philosophical position was opposed to the whiggish/republican stance of thomas paine and the.
