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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The Aftermath of The Seven Year War Part 2

Hello, this is Rebecca Nokatomi blogging live from the inside of The Aftermath of The Seven Year War. The French aren't too happy right now (and not only because they lost the war), and British merchants in Quebec were telling Governor James Murray that any rights given to the French were unfair. They thought that because their homeland won the war, that their people should have more rights then the people who lost the war (The French). James Murray was called to Britain, and Guy Carleton took his place as Governor. He thought that the French could be allies against the Thirteen colonies if a war broke out. So he ordered the British merchants to be as nice as possible. Like learning French, their religion and their civil laws. He gave the Ohio Valley to Quebec because of all the people who wanted to move there due to over - crowded settling. The Thirteen Colonies felt that Britain was harming the economy they lived in. Colonists thought that they don't want to pay taxes Britain issues, they only want to pay taxes from a government they don't have (yet). The Thirteen Colonies had wanted Ohio Valley for a long time, and Guy Carleton knew that and just gave it to Quebec, ignoring their desperate need for land. The Thirteen Colonies wanted to fight back, and asked Quebec and Nova Scotia to help them, neither did because the laws weren't affecting them, they were actually making them stronger.

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