Assimilation or Accommodation

A detailed Summary of Assimilation or Accommodation

With the end of the Seven Years' War and the fall of New France in

1763, Britain assumed control of almost all of North America. The

Seven Years' War was for the possession of the Ohio Valley. A

valley rich in the fur trade industry and land good for future

settlement. Britain's newly conquered country would now have to

deal with the opposing cultures to which forms their population.

Britain's colony was home to a society of sixty thousand

francophone Catholics. Britain was faced with the issue of how to

deal with the growing population. Attempts of both assimilation

and accommodation were evident among the newly conquered

Since the British were the dominating culture, many English

people wished to see the French over turned and eventually live

their life solely under British rule. Under the British law they could

not recognize the rights of Catholics. Therefore no Roman

Catholics could sit on the British Council an

could no longer compete to the full extent as the English. Above all,

dignified religion, while being able to sit on court appointed juries.

cultures a chance to survive and co-exist among one another

countries, it is not always seen as the 'best' or most 'beneficial'

and can not even speak the English language. The French no longer

Murry's successor, Carleton, quickly adopted his views. His views

lenient policy toward the newly conquered population. Murry

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