{"id":6456,"date":"2016-11-02T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=6456"},"modified":"2019-06-04T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T22:48:36","slug":"6-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/chapter\/6-1-introduction\/","title":{"raw":"6.1 Introduction","rendered":"6.1 Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"The markets and monarchies of Western Europe existed in very uncomfortable tension. So, too, did their religious and political alliances and identities. The conflicts of the old countries became those of the new. The colonies, however, had given birth to\u00a0rivalries of their own and often set the agenda for their respective masters. The relationship between New France and Britain's American colonies was to prove pivotal in the evolution of what became the modern state of Canada. The country's origins lay along the banks of the St. Lawrence and in Acadia, but also in the port towns of <strong>New England<\/strong> and the trans-Appalachian west of New York and Pennsylvania.\r\n\r\nThis chapter surveys the military and commercial conflict\u00a0that led to the Seven Years' War and British claims over most of what had been New France. It also considers the extent to which the boundaries between English, Dutch, and French colonies (populated in part by Africans as well as Europeans) blurred and the places where distinctively new communities were beginning to arise.\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\u009fDemonstrate clearly an understanding of the geopolitical situation of New France and its neighbours.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Express familiarity\u00a0with Louisbourg, Acadia, New England, and Newfoundland\u2019s pluralistic frontiers.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Analyze the strategic role assigned to Canada within the French imperial system.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u009f Describe the economic, imperial, and regional roots of conflict in North America.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u009f Understand the French-English struggle for power in North America in the 18th\u00a0century.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u009f Explain the significance of conflict in Acadia and the expulsion of the Acadians.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u009f Understand how and why the conquest of Canada occurred.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>The markets and monarchies of Western Europe existed in very uncomfortable tension. So, too, did their religious and political alliances and identities. The conflicts of the old countries became those of the new. The colonies, however, had given birth to\u00a0rivalries of their own and often set the agenda for their respective masters. The relationship between New France and Britain&#8217;s American colonies was to prove pivotal in the evolution of what became the modern state of Canada. The country&#8217;s origins lay along the banks of the St. Lawrence and in Acadia, but also in the port towns of <strong>New England<\/strong> and the trans-Appalachian west of New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>This chapter surveys the military and commercial conflict\u00a0that led to the Seven Years&#8217; War and British claims over most of what had been New France. It also considers the extent to which the boundaries between English, Dutch, and French colonies (populated in part by Africans as well as Europeans) blurred and the places where distinctively new communities were beginning to arise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>\u009fDemonstrate clearly an understanding of the geopolitical situation of New France and its neighbours.<\/li>\n<li>Express familiarity\u00a0with Louisbourg, Acadia, New England, and Newfoundland\u2019s pluralistic frontiers.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the strategic role assigned to Canada within the French imperial system.<\/li>\n<li>\u009f Describe the economic, imperial, and regional roots of conflict in North America.<\/li>\n<li>\u009f Understand the French-English struggle for power in North America in the 18th\u00a0century.<\/li>\n<li>\u009f Explain the significance of conflict in Acadia and the expulsion of the Acadians.<\/li>\n<li>\u009f Understand how and why the conquest of Canada occurred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-sa"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[62],"class_list":["post-6456","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","license-cc-by-sa"],"part":6455,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6456\/revisions\/6920"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/6455"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6456\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}