George Grenville

In his address, the king spoke about the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary leaders who signed it, saying, “for daring and desperate is the spirit of those leaders, whose object has always been dominion and power, that they have now openly renounced all allegiance to the crown, and …

When told by the American artist Benjamin West that Washington was going to resign, King George III of England said “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

He led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. He also held a number of other cabinet posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. North’s reputation among historians has swung back and forth.

King George III

What was George Grenville’s opinion on taxing the colonies? He thought the colonies should be taxed to pay for their defense.

To what areas of North America had the French laid claim by 1750? By the mid-seventeenth century, the French Empire in America comprised a vast territory and laid claim to the whole continental interior. The English offered the natives much more plentiful goods, but the French offered them TOLERANCE.

France established the colony of Île Royale, now called Cape Breton Island, where they built the Fortress of Louisbourg….New France.

France lost its mainland possessions to North America. Britain now claimed all the land from the east coast of North America to the Mississippi River. Everything west of that river belonged to Spain. France gave all its western lands to Spain to keep the British out.

New France, French Nouvelle-France, (1534–1763), the French colonies of continental North America, initially embracing the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Scotia) but gradually expanding to include much of the Great Lakes region and parts of the trans-Appalachian West.

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• Samuel de Champlain.
• Jacques Cartier.
• Quebec.
• Jacques Marquette.
• Louis Joliet.
• Robert Cavelier de la Salle.
• fur trade. most profitable business in New France.
• Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable. trader and trappern best known Frenchman of African descent in New France.

Lack of supplies, resistance by the local Native Americans, and direct attack by the Spanish quickly ended French attempts to settle on the southeastern coastline of North America.

In 1763, France ceded Canada to England through theTreaty of Paris. Now England controlled all of Canada. In the years that followed, Canadian colonies—now under British rule—expanded their trade networks and built an economy largely supported by agriculture and the export of natural resources like fur and timber.

Notably, 46% of English-speaking Canadians live in Ontario, and 30% in the two western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The most monolingual province is Newfoundland and Labrador at 98.5%. English-speakers are in the minority only in Quebec and Nunavut.

It was officially withdrawn in 1939. In 2016 approximately 1500 United States citizens accidentally crossed the international border on rafts and landed on the Canadian shoreline during the annual Port Huron Down event. News agencies referred to the incident as an “Invasion”.

French Canadians get their name from Canada, the most developed and densely populated region of New France during the period of French colonization in the 17th and 18th centuries.

French use declines at home and work as francophone numbers drop. Use of the French language in the province has decreased since the turn of the millennium, according to a new Statistics Canada report.

“Canuck” /kəˈnʌk/ is a slang term for a Canadian. The origins of the word are uncertain. The term “Kanuck” is first recorded in 1835 as an Americanism, originally referring to Dutch Canadians (which included German Canadians) or French Canadians.