Why Did Britain Justified The Expulsion Of The Acadians?

On, the 11th of April of 1713 through a series of agreements Britain and France concluded the War of Spanish Succession by signing the Treaty of Utrecht. Amongst many of the agreements in the treaty, France seceded the territory where Acadia, present day Nova Scotia, to the British. Following the acquirement of Acadia, Britain had to decide the course of action it wanted to take in regards to the Acadians. Would they allow them to continue with their day to day lives? Did they pose a threat? The British attempted to get the Acadians to sign on oath of allegiance to the British Crown. However, when the Acadians refused to sign the oath. Consequently, the British responded with the deportation of a large number of Acadians. From 1755 to 1762 approximately 12,000 Acadians from were removed from their homes. The British justified the expulsion of the Acadians because of their disloyalty. This paper will argue, however, that the expulsion was less of a response to disloyalty and more of a means for Britain to assert their dominance in the BNA.
Amongst many of the possible reasons why the British decided to expel the Acadians from Nova Scotia, previous, and ongoing, tensions between France and England came into play. It is important to take into account the international conflict in which both
Such measures were taken due to the fear of an unstable state. It was believed that the presence of different religious/social groups within a territory could pose a threat to the stability of for the state. In his paper A.J.B. Johnson explains how governments saw other religious groups in their territory as unstable. This concept, however, with the encounter of the Acadians and the British. Events such like this one had been occuring in Europe since the 16th and 17th century. For