... and signed between France, Britain and Spain, established that all the territories west of Mississippi should have gone to Spain and all the territories east to Great Britain. French settlers remained only in the area of Quebec. From now on, French became the colonized and England the colonizer. The French-speaking inhabitants found themselves under British rule but they were allowed to retain their civil laws, language and religion. After the American revolution a large number of English-speaking colonists, who wanted to remain loyal to the British crown, came up north to settle in Canada. However it took another 100years before the political geography of Canada roughly approached its present form. In 1846 the boundary between the United States and the British territories was extended westward along the 49th parallel to the Pacific. In the second part of 19th century the victory of the northern states in the American Civil Was seemed to ...

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