Problems of Confessional Governance
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I. outcomes of the SYW
A. intensified Anglo-French rivalry
B. broadened horizons
C. challenges of governance
pre- and post-war approaches
defense and revenue
Indian relations
> Royal Proclamation of 1763
how to govern ceded colonies?
assimilation (anglicization) vs. accommodation (toleration/ freedom of conscience)
II. problems of confessional governance:
1) peopling "infant colonies"
East Florida: Lord Hillsborough; James Grant
2) managing Catholic new subjects
Acadian expulsion (1750s) [link]
Treaty of Paris: articles IV and XX: "His Britannick Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit."
Quebec: 70,000 French "new subjects"
Quebec Act
III. India
Anglo-French rivalry
age of partnership > "Company rule"
