How did Britain respond to Loyalist Concerns?
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- Daquavious Bingleton
- We demand British Rights in Quebec!
- Quebec City
- We will consider it...
- The new British population in Quebec wanted British laws and rights to replace the French ones.
- Population of Quebec after Loyalist Migration
- Canadien Population in Quebec; ~90%
- British population in Quebec; ~10%
- Quebec ActEndangered!
- The Quebec Act of 1774 became endangered because the rights for the Canadiens inside could potentially be removed or replaced.
- We want a new colony!
- St. John River
- We will consider it...
- Loyalists moved into Nova Scotia along the St John River. They were different from older colonists, and therefore wanted a new colony.
- New Brunswick--(formerly in Nova Scotia)
- -- Nova Scotia
- Parliament
- Let's split Quebec in two; Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
- Let's restore British civil and criminal law in Upper Canada.
- Let's keep French civil law and British criminal law in Lower Canada.
- Let's create a new colony for the Loyalists in Nova Scotia.
- These are all great ideas!
- Let's have representative governments in the colonies.
- How did Britain Respond to Loyalist concerns?
- 2. French civil law and British criminal law was instituted in Lower Canada, as previously declared in the Quebec Act of 1774.
- 5. All the colonies were now ruled by representative governments; the people could chose and elect who was in each governmental position.
- 3. British civil law and criminal law was put into place in Upper Canada.
- 4. Loyalists in Nova Scotia got their own colony; New Brunswick.
- 1. Quebec was split into Upper Canada and Lower Canada (would become Ontario and Quebec respectively).
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