HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Maritime Fur Trade, Red River Colony, Joseph Howe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 101
• Professor: John- Henry Harter

Document Summary

First nations after war fur prices fell: only one buyer fewer, lower-quality trade goods. Protect native terriotries: lands not held by britain. Native response resistance, esp inland some violence eg pontiac"s uprising, 1763. Johnson, molly and joseph brant 1768: negotiated boundaries of indian territory, ignored. Borders extended: ohio territory, labrador, northern areas. Merchants: traditional land ownership, authority, no democracy. British: traditional lands annexed, catholic freedoms. New england planters responded to call to settle there: yankees , dissenters protestant religions(those not of church or england) brought yankee culture. St. john"s island (pei) land lots court favourites: improve land, settle prot immigants, pay land taxes colonial elite. Default - escheat: land reverts to crown, ineffective. Britain: some laws and courts, discouraged settlement. Moravian missions, labrador: christianize and pacify" inuit, schools, medical services, trade goods. Billeting british forces coercive acts: restricted right of assembly tensions,armed clashes second continental congress, army to liberate boston, take quebcec elite, pro-health.