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4.1

4.2
RUSSIAN
AMERICA
Hudson
4.3 Bay French fishing rights
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
St. Lawrence R.
4.4 Missouri R. Great Lakes QUEBEC St. Pierre &
Miquelon (Fr.)

Proclamation Line of 1763
Mississippi R. COLONIES AT LA NTIC
4.5 SPANISH Ohio INDIAN RESERVE BRITISH
LOUISIANA R.
OCEAN
PA CIFIC St. Domingue
OCEAN Gulf of (Fr.)
Mexico Puerto Rico
(Sp.) Guadeloupe (Fr.)
Cuba Martinique (Fr.)
NEW SPAIN
Jamaica St. Lucia (Fr.)
Caribbean Sea
GUIANA
(Dutch)
0 500 1000 miles
British claims
0 500 1000 kilometers NEW GRANADA
French claims
BRAZIL
Spanish claims (Port.)
Russian claims

map 4.6 NorTH amErica aFTEr 1763 the Peace of Paris of 1763 redrew the map of North America.
Great britain received all the French holdings except for a few islands in the Atlantic and some sugar-producing
islands in the caribbean.

peace of paris of 1763 treaty The Peace of Paris of 1763, signed on February 10, almost fulfilled Pitt’s gran-
ending the French and indian War diose dreams. Britain took possession of an empire that stretched around the globe.
by which France ceded canada to Only Guadeloupe and Martinique, the Caribbean sugar islands, were given back to
britain.
the French. After a century-long struggle, the French had been driven from the main-
land of North America. Even Louisiana passed out of France’s control into Spanish
hands. The treaty gave Britain title to Canada, Spanish Florida, and all the land east of
the Mississippi River. Moreover, with the stroke of a diplomat’s pen, 80,000 French-
speaking Canadians, most of them Catholics, became the subjects of George III. (See
Map 4.6.)
The Americans were overjoyed. It was a time of good feelings and national pride.
Quick Check Together, the British and their colonial allies had thwarted the “Gallic peril.” Samuel
How did the Peace of Paris of 1763 Davies, a Presbyterian who had brought the Great Awakening to Virginia, declared that
transform North American politics?
the long-awaited victory would inaugurate “a new heaven and a new earth.”

Perceptions of War
The Seven Years’ War made a deep impression on American society. Even though
Franklin’s Albany Plan had failed, the war had forced the colonists to cooperate on an
unprecedented scale. It also drew them into closer contact with Britain. They became
aware of being part of a great empire, military and commercial, but in the process of
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