HIS263Y1 Lecture Notes - Expulsion Of The Acadians, First Nations
Document Summary
During the long peace, people still remember the previous conflicts: people in england thinking of people in new france and their allies, people in new france worrying about growing number of protestants in new england. Dutch are out in 1667: the english then enter their own alliance with the h. confederacy. 1689-1713: long series of frontier raids between new england and new france, new france with its aboriginal allies harassing british towns and vice versa. Peace of montreal: bringing peace to the great lakes region, skirmishes between french and english didn"t end until 1713. Actual conflict shifted to economic conflict: trading at the expense of others. Frontier conflicts result in period of aggressive instability outside the main colonial settlement areas: no peace for first nations peoples. Massachusetts set a bounty for the scalp of the man over the age of 12 (first nations people: new england trying to eliminate first nations peoples, first nations retaliating with french support.
