France and Britain had been arch enemies for centuries. New France (Quebec) was taken over by the British. Ben Franklin had a newspaper in Montreal. You’d think there’d be some influence and rationale for Quebec to secede from Britain and join the US during the war of independence, but it didn’t. Why not?
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[This](https://www.sar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Other-Colonies-by-Daniel-Haulman.pdf) reads like a high school essay, but I quickly checked a couple of the facts and it seems to check out. Needs citations before I’d take it as truth, but makes sense.
Basically: the British allowed Catholic French aristocracy in Quebec (both the city and the colony) to maintain vast tracts of land and collect money from their tenants as long as they swore allegiance to the King. Also there was still a lot of enmity between Catholics and Protestants (the overwhelming majority of the revolutionary leaders) and the Quebeçoise thought they might be forced to convert or become second class citizens.
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