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A military regime was set up to negotiate the problems between Britain and France. Britain promised New France immunity from deportation, maltreatment, right to leave with all their possessions, property rights, carry on the fur trade, and freedom of religion. -
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King George III established governing for the North American territories surrendered by France. -
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Indian Affairs superintendent William Johnson called the chiefs of the Great Lakes nation to end the war. -
Alliances with Pontiac started to break. Slowly his followers started to scatter and leave for their winter hunting grounds. -
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General Richard Montgomery led the first major offensive of war by seizing Fort Ticonderoga. Fort Crown Point, and Fort Chambly. -
The passing of the Quebec Act led to anger from the 13 colonies who were having issues over taxes and other administration. The Act allowed religious freedom for Roman Catholics and restored the French civil law in the colony of Québec. This stopped the dream of Americans like future rebel leader George Washington, to expand the American colonies westward. These frustrations broke into open war between United States rebels and British forces at Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775. -
During a snowstorm the Americans attacked Quebec that was defended by 1800 solders. They returned later for a counterattack. -
The survivors of the American Revolution went back to New York. -
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The Treaty of Paris was signed to stop the American Revolution and make a boundary between the American colonies and British territories. The agreement also reserved land for Aboriginal people. They made a boundary along the Great Lakes (Ontario, Erie, Huron and Superior) from Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi's headwaters, and along the Mississippi River. Through the Treaty the United States was given the valuable lands it had reserved for Indigenous peoples by the Royal Proclamation of 1763