British Empire

Do you think that the British had more to fight for than the colonists? When the Colonies started to form, the British Crown started to make Acts for the colonies to keep them under control. While Britain put a lot of effort and time on the colonies, The colonists had more to fight for because they were also fighting for a new life, for their land, and for their freedom. First of all, The colonists had more to fight for because they were fighting for a new life. The colonists started to…

owned and controlled the land and colonies. When the colonies were beginning, the British basically let them do their own thing for about a half a century. This was called the period of salutary neglect. Then the British Government decided to be more involved in the colonies. During this time the British started to create more laws and had british troops in the colonies enforce these laws. Since the British Empire had just gotten done with the Seven Years War, they felt the Colonists had some…

the state of the British Empire began to experience a rather extreme identity crisis due to the growing distaste for imperialism between the many colonial ties that started to question the validity of the relationship to its “Mother Country.” These tensions within the empire that arose due to British colonialism caused colonies to push for a more independent status from their English ties, thus giving rise to the post-colonial movement that addressed numerous aspects of British civilized society…

In 1763, British Empire won the war against the French Empire in North of America and concluded the Treaty of Paris. However, despite the victory, the Empire was in a really bad shape. Indeed, the war was really expensive and the government decided to increase the taxes on colonies in order to recover the debts. This increased tensions among the colonies leading to several meeting like the First Continental Congress. Following the latter, they took several decisions but it was not enough.…

with The British Empire restriction on the expansion on settlings of colonists towards the states that were abandoned by the French colonies. The Great Britain won the war, so they went into deep debts which led to unfair taxation of the colonists. The real shift in mutual relationship is rooted in the atmosphere of Proclamation 1763. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was seen as being useful to the Native American Indians and Great Britain; however it was a disadvantage to the colonists. British…

In the First World War, Indian soldiers were sent to Europe on the front lines, and even North Africa. The British Empire learned of the importance of the Indian armies, and were ready to use them in the Second World War in the same places. The Indian soldiers were sent all around the world, including North Africa, Europe, and even in Southeast Asia. In North Africa…

Constitutional rights. The roots of the American Revolution can be traced back to the year of 1763, British Parliament’s passage of the Proclamation Line was one of the first of a series of acts by…

that takes place in Burma where the British government has sent military officers to the colonies it has there. The story is written through Orwell’s point of view as one of the officers who is strongly disliked by the Burmese that live in the colony. By writing about his experience as a military occupier in a British colony in Burma, Orwell tries to show that imperialism does not just negatively impact it’s victims but also the people enforcing it. The British officers, including Orwell, in…

Empires in the 19th century relied primarily on gender roles to be able to function and succeed in the world. Gender was very essential to empires and the way they provided roles for all of the people in the empire. Roles helped the empire function by allowing each person to know exactly where they fit and what their expectations were. Many empires were focused on different roles for each gender and the expectations for each gender and class were sufficient in where they stand. Gender was…

between them and their slave masters. Of course, what does come, as a surprise is the fact that Angolan slaves residing in the British Colony of South Carolina in 1739 were able to construct a revolt that resulted in a reformation that more tightly regulated the gathering of slaves. The revolt, known as the Stono Rebellion, was constructed in pursuit of rule under the Spanish Empire. In the document “Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”, the Peter Oglethorpe specifies that a…