Changes And Continuities In Canada During 1700-1850

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Imagine if the entire world had no borders or boundaries, how would the world function? In the time frame of 1700-1850 the stability was very low and the events that occurred were the War of Spanish Succession, the Seven Years war and the Act of Union/Responsible Government. The countries then switched from New France to East/West Canada. Many Treaties from different countries were made, multiple wars started and ended and immigration started with many people in different countries. Then once the stability got better the wars lessened and the immigration which means a person going from one country to a totally different country that might change their lifestyle ended as well. Canada was a place of conflict and change beginning under the monarchy and ending with the democracy with a lot of change in power from the French to the British. …show more content…

The European countries fought to prevent France from taking over spain and its colonies. The war was fought between 1702 to 1713. France and Britain were fighting to control colonies in a number of areas and France loss control of Acadia and Britain took control of Acadia and two other Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. In 1713 the two sides negotiated with a peace treaty at Utrecht in the Netherlands. They treated and each side agreed to give back some colonies that had been captured in the war. France was only able to keep two small islands called Guadeloupe and Martinique. Acadia became a British colony, although most of Acadia was transferred to the British in the treaty of Utrecht the island that is known now is the Cape Breton was retained by the French. They called it Isle royale. After 1713 except for Ile Royale the British completely surrounded New France. New France found it difficult to strengthen its position. At the end of Spanish Succession in 1713 they signed the peace treaty of

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