Treaties & Constitutions
This treaty officially ended French rule in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Who was the first civil governor of the Province of Quebec? He was the one who had to try to implement the Royal Proclamation but took a conciliatory approach towards les Canadiens, language, religion and cultural rights.
Who is James Murray?
One cause of the American Revolution.
What are British taxes or the Intolerable Acts?
The social group that formed the majority of the population
Who are the (French) farmers (les habitants)?
The colony’s main economic activity after the Conquest
What is the fur trade?
This constitution reorganized the Province of Quebec after the Conquest and imposed British rule.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
What Act required colonial officials to take an oath renouncing the Pope and the Catholic faith?
What is the Test Act?
An event at the start of the American Revolution that directly impacted Quebec.
What is the American invasion of Montreal or Quebec City in 1775?
Which social group gained control of the colony’s economy after the Conquest?
Who are British merchants or merchant bourgeoisie?
What economic policy structured trade during both French and British rule?
What is mercantilism?
This act restored French civil law and tolerated the Catholic religion in Quebec.
What is the Quebec Act (1774)
British governors (and the king) adopted a tolerant attitude toward Canadiens after 1763 for one of these reasons
What is Canadiens formed the majority of the population and because they wanted to ensure their loyalty and not join the 13 colonies in their revolution
The reason Canadiens refused the letters of invitation to support the American rebels/Patriots and chose to remain neutral during the revolution?
What is that they benefited from British protections. land increase and wanted stability?
The French elite social group of New France who, in British regime lost their political power and became much less influential.
Who are the seigneurs.
The company created to expand the fur trade west of the Great Lakes?
What is the North West Company?
Identify one difference between the Royal Proclamation and the Quebec Act.
What is that the Royal Proclamation imposed British laws and authority, while the Quebec Act (any one of these for the point):
Restored French civil law, Catholic religion, tithe, and the seigneurial system, abolished Test Act but required Oath of Allegiance to be in admin position
According to the instructions given to Governor James Murray shortly after the Royal Proclamation, what was the goal of British authorities regarding the Canadien population?
What is the assimilation of the Canadiens into British culture?
Identify one consequence of the American Revolution for the Province of Quebec.
What is: (any one of these): Loyalist immigration, indigenous refugees, reduced territory to north of the Great Lakes
The name of the new social group of young French professionals of doctors, lawyers, notaries after many of the French elite left following the Conquest.
Who are the professional bourgeoisie, the sons of the farmers, educated in the new classical colleges
Between 1760 and 1790, this change in the control of the fur trade and economic policy took place.
What is the control of trade from French Canadiens to British merchants (with all the $) and protectionist policy (trade only within British empire).
This replaced the Test Act (in the Quebec Act) allowing a French person to hold an administrative position.
What is an/the Oath of Allegiance to the King of England?
During this constitution Catholicism was only tolerated and a new Bishop could not be appointed
What is the Royal Proclamation?
A way the American Revolution changed Quebec without a revolution there.
What is that (any one answer earns a point) the population, socio-economics, language and culture changed (with the British and Black loyalist immigration)?
An increase in rural settlement (communities established and growing) led to these new professions in the Canadiens population.
What is small-scale merchants and artisans/crafts people.
Between 1760 and 1790, how did the name of the colony and the territory it covered change?
What is the change from New France, which extended from Louisiana to Labrador, to the Province of Quebec, which covered a reduced territory from north of the Great Lakes to Labrador?