Appeal To The Patriots Of Quebec Summary

CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON
“APPEAL TO THE INHABITANTS
OF QUEBEC, 1774”

HI 105
CPT Hann
September 20, 2013

The era of late 1700’s was a period of great change in North America. After the French and Indian war ended in 1963, Great Britain’s control of North America’s east coast caused more interaction between the American colonies and Canada, which was a French colony prior to the war. In 1774, the Continental Congress wrote to the inhabitants of Quebec in an appeal which was entitled, “Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec.” In this appeal, the American colonists expressed their great joy that Quebec was now a part of the English colonies, and the main thesis of this appeal was that the inhabitants of Quebec had earned the right to have the same rights as the colonies under a just form of government, and that the best way for them to achieve that was by joining the American colonies. These ideas that the colonists had were very persuasive, and they provided a
This listing of rights was very effective in attempting to sway the inhabitants of Quebec to join the colonies, as it provides illicit examples of why the colonies have a great form of government. Upon providing examples of why the colonists felt that their own government would be successful in bettering the province of Quebec, the appeal went on to provide further evidence of why Quebec should join the colonies by addressing the problems with the government that was in control of Quebec at the