Scots also benefited from other opportunities granted by the unification as well. Now Scots could now join the East India Trading Company as employees and investors and were not barred by the Navigation acts and merchants could now go to the colonies directly for trade. Many Scots quickly joined the Trading Company and rose through the ranks joining many Englishmen into riches earning the title of “Nabob’. The most notable early Scot in the East India Company being James Macrae, born in Ayrshire, he became the governor of Madras in 1725 only eighteen years after the Act of Union. Macrae served as the Governor of Madras with distinction, undertaking many projects that benefited the East India Company and also the merchants and population of
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Many Scots began taking part in the growing British trade network many areas in Scotland begin to develop economically starting to show many Scots the benefits of uniting with England in the newly formed Great Britain. Prior to 1707 Glasgow was a small river city but grew into a large trade hub. With the repealing of the Navigation and Alien Acts, Glasgow merchants could start to import goods from the American and Caribbean colonies into Great Britain and then further into Europe which they started in 1718 increasing to 65 ships in 1735 to 386 in 1783. As this trade began the city began to develop to facilitate the transfer of goods, port facilities for the ships, warehouses for the goods, custom houses for custom officers to search and tax …show more content…
Now historically the actions that fall under the umbrella term of the Highland Clearances are viewed by many as forms of retribution for the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 to crush the Clan system and to finally and utterly pacify the Highland never letting a Scot think of even trying to rise up again against the crown in London. However, this view is skewed heavily by the Duke of Cumberland and his orders after the Battle of Culloden. The Highland Clearances had been an ongoing process the matched the urbanization of the cities with an increase in agricultural and goods production. The main issue of the Clearances was that the growing increase in agriculture and industry was matched with an increase in population in the Highlands. In 1707 there were about 250,000 Scots living in the Highlands, that by 1755 the population had jumped by another hundred thousand to 355,000. There were many causes to this population jump, the repealing of the Navigation Acts allowed for grain imports from the American colonies to increase the food supply in the region, along with the introduction of the smallpox inoculation allowed for this increase in
Many Scots began taking part in the growing British trade network many areas in Scotland begin to develop economically starting to show many Scots the benefits of uniting with England in the newly formed Great Britain. Prior to 1707 Glasgow was a small river city but grew into a large trade hub. With the repealing of the Navigation and Alien Acts, Glasgow merchants could start to import goods from the American and Caribbean colonies into Great Britain and then further into Europe which they started in 1718 increasing to 65 ships in 1735 to 386 in 1783. As this trade began the city began to develop to facilitate the transfer of goods, port facilities for the ships, warehouses for the goods, custom houses for custom officers to search and tax …show more content…
Now historically the actions that fall under the umbrella term of the Highland Clearances are viewed by many as forms of retribution for the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 to crush the Clan system and to finally and utterly pacify the Highland never letting a Scot think of even trying to rise up again against the crown in London. However, this view is skewed heavily by the Duke of Cumberland and his orders after the Battle of Culloden. The Highland Clearances had been an ongoing process the matched the urbanization of the cities with an increase in agricultural and goods production. The main issue of the Clearances was that the growing increase in agriculture and industry was matched with an increase in population in the Highlands. In 1707 there were about 250,000 Scots living in the Highlands, that by 1755 the population had jumped by another hundred thousand to 355,000. There were many causes to this population jump, the repealing of the Navigation Acts allowed for grain imports from the American colonies to increase the food supply in the region, along with the introduction of the smallpox inoculation allowed for this increase in