Restructuring the Atlantic World

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Restructuring the Atlantic World

• Intro
• The Atlantic World c. 1750
• The Triumph of British America
• Indian Country?
• Fracturing the British Atlantic World
• Epilogue the War of 1812

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A Model of Empire

• Imperialism a territorially structured
  relationship of unequal power, in which one group
  of people establishes dominance (economic,
  cultural, political) over another
• Colonialism
• Metropole Periphery
• Territories
• Conquered areas
• Settler colonies
• Protectorates
• Trunk line

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Interconnections in the Atlantic World
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The Triumph of British America

• Acadia becomes Nova Scotia, 1713
• Ohio Country
• George Washington at Fort Dusquesne, 1754
• Fall of Quebec, 1759
• Fall of Montreal, 1760
• Canada Florida to Britain
• Louisiana to Spain

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The Triumph of British America

• Explusion of the Acadians, 1755
• Canada/Quebec change in leadership
• Royal Proclamation of 1763
• Quebec Act, 1774
• East Florida 3,000 non-Native, 1775
• Louisiana 3,000 Acadians by 1775

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British America 1763-74
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Indian Country?

• Proclamation Line
• Cherokee Attacks, South Carolina, 1759-61
• Pontiacs Rebellion, 1763
• Rum trade
• Unregulated competition
• Resettlement
• 1,300,000 in Brit Am, 1750
• 2,600,000 in Brit Am, 1775
• New lands

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British America 1763-74
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Origins of the American Revoln

• Diverging interests
• Taxes
• Standing army
• Trade disputes
• Stamp Act, 1765
• Boston Massacre, 1770
• Intolerable Acts

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Farms
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Boston Massacre
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Loyalists Patriots

• Civil war
• Militias
• Continental Army
• Siege of Yorktown, 1784

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New Borders

• The problem of the Great Lakes boundary
• 80-100,000 loyalists
• 30,000 loyalists to Nova Scotia
• 10,000 loyalists to Quebec
• Upper Canada, 1791
• Florida to Spain
• Louisiana to France, 1800

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Loyalist Resettlement
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North America, 1800