French Virginia (Knazar's First Timeline)

part 11......:)



1770 - 1780

La territoire La-Croix was despised by the French settlers. Most settlers refused to follow such laws and many began settling on the Frontier. On the Appalachian frontier, tensions among natives, recent settlers and colonial authorities underlined a continuiing sense of emergency. The rapidly growing population of Carolina, spurred the migration of people and capitol to the frontier. Expansion also prevoked conflict between frontier settlers and their own colonial governments. France, which was in severe dept after the seven years war, did not want future conflicts with the native population and decided to send soldiers to enforce the territoire La-Croix. In 1773, tensions flared into violence in Louisiana's backcountry when settlers began firing on the French soldiers. The Appalacian Rebbelion was crushed quickly and the French soldiers burned down all settlements in La territoire La-Croix and forced the settlers to leave the lands which were owned by the Natives. This action was widely criticized not only in Carolina but also in France. The royal governor of Carolina viewed this as the correct thing to do and branded the settlers as "savage traitors". This would soon lead to a growing sense of animosity between the people of Carolina and the Governor. meanwhile back in France, Louis XVI ascended to the throne amidst a financial crisis. In an effort to raise money Louis increased taxes, but the upper classes did not pay taxes so the burden ultimatly fell on the poor. across the Atlantic, Louis made laws that made sure that Carolina only traded with France and not the other French colonies in the caribbean. The law was very much opposed by the colonists, however the law was a very idle threat as the colonists continiued to smuggle. The revenues raised by the trade laws did little to ease France's financial crisis. In an effort to prevent the Dutch people in Upper Louisiana ( former New Netherlands) from revolting, the French goverment established another colony, "Nouvelle Hollande". The colony gave the people of Nouvelle Hollande the right to practice their religion freely and to pay less taxes. While the act did ease the tensions in the region, the other colonies had concerns over Nouvelle Hollande and the exessive freedoms that were being granted t oa people who were supposed to have been "conquered People".





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1780 - 1789

The French Revolution led many people in Carolina to reassess their political values. However during the Years leading up to the revolution several key events took place. In order to pay for his Empire in North America, Louis XVI had created several new taxes that somewhat threatened Carolina's economy. Nouvelle Hollande was another controversy, in which the people of Carolina claimed that it gave too many privileges to the Dutch people. Another big issue was the status of the "habitants" or the peasants that were living in Carolinas fuedal society. As the Population of Carolina became more and more "Literate", many began to see the ideals of the Enlightenment. In France the growing antagonism between the people and the King was mirrored in Carolina with hostilities growing between the Governor, land owning Seigneurs and the Habitants. In the mid 1780's, Intellectuals from each colony gathered in Henriville to discuss the new ideas brought forth by the Enlightenment. On November 12th of 1787, a mob of around 300 Habitants stormed an armory around Santée and stole the weapons stored there. This was followed by similar actions throughout Carolina. The governor sent several soldiers to crush the insurrection. Nouvelle Hollande remained surprisingly quiet. Meanwhile in France, the people viewed the revolt in North America as an oppertunity to start their own revolution. On July 11, 1789 a Mob of people stormed the Kings Palace. King Louis and the rest of his family was beaten, stabed and decapitated and his head paraded through the city on a pike. In Carolina, the governor saw this as a warning.




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I for one like your TL :) Its been interesting so far.

You have over a thousand thread views, so you are getting readers.
 
Of course, I can. I'm a pretty cheery guy actually if you're that curious but I don't see why that has to do with this thread which we're both derailing with our back and forth.

At this point I am not sure if Nazar minds as long the thread stays at the front page:p
 
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