Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain

The birth of America as a nation was a revolution of thought about the nature of freedom and mankind’s right to choose our own destiny. The onset of the Glorious Revolution, the imperial wars, the Navigation Acts, Salutary Neglect, and people such as John Locke influencing many colonists in America began an era that would contour the path towards revolution. One of the single most important developments in England to affect the self-identity of the colonists was the Glorious…

women had to get an Act of Parliament* to get a divorce. But in 1857, the Matrimonial Causes Act allowed women to obtain a divorce without the Act of Parliament. This Act also allowed for women to keep the money that they earned from their job instead of having to give it to their former husband. When a married couple got divorced, the women were allowed to have custody of their children if she had the proper accommodations. The act that allowed this was the Custody of Infants Act, which was…

pro’s to the emancipation, there were also cons. One of the limitations of this emancipation was that peasants had to purchase land from their landowners, however the landowners got to keep the good pieces of property. Even though this may seem like a great idea for the peasants, it was not because of the rising population of peasants. Another negative side of the emancipation, was the fact that the peasants really did not own their land but the village commune did. The peasants were expected to…

in 1776, instead the winter of 1773 in the frigid waters of Boston Harbor. That December night American protested the Tea Act passed earlier that year, by dumping over three hundred chest of tea in the harbor. This act of defiance was meet with swift actions from the British Parliament, who declared the Massachusetts Bay colony to be in a state of rebellion. The Parliament took harsh actions in an attempt to stamp out this up rising. These actions included closing the Boston port, dismissing…

British Parliament was finding many ways to make laws and impose taxes on the American colonies. The British Parliament is the supreme legislative body in the UK. They wanted to have complete control over America. They first started with the Proclamation Act of 1763. This act forbade settlement anywhere that passed a line drawn which went through the Appalachian Mountains. Sugar Acts (Revenue Act) of 1764, which is the next act created, was an adjusted version of the Sugar and Molasses…

considered to be a failure, and a few offensives during the Hundred Days Campaign, all of which were commanded by General Currie, all of the commanders of the Canadian forces were British. For this reason, Canada was still being seen as an extension of Great Britain, as can be proved by the American President Woodrow Wilson’s opposition to Canada having her own seat at the Paris Peace Conference…

That day the British brought 11 boats carrying an estimated 1,000 convicts to vanish them from Britain. They turned Australia into a penal colony which would let them dispose of as many prisoners as they wanted. It was a sort of blessing and a curse with the arrival of new people not because they brought new technology and animals but, because of the…

As the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution, the rapid growth of the textile industry through the process of urbanization and mechanization in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, Britain witnessed the process of industrialization long before many other nations even began. Starting in the middle of the 18th Century, the long standing rural cottage industry began to give way to more urban forms of (primarily textile) industry. This change, occurring due to from the process of mechanization,…

revolution, the King and Parliament eventually take the patriots seriously, and it turns into a full fledged war. Throughout the war, taxes are a big problem in the American Revolution, and they seem to never disappear. Bliven points out that the Americans celebrated the revocation of the stamp act even though they had not won the battle. The law was replaced by an even worse one, The Declaratory Act. It was an insult to injury, due to the fact that it was worded to give parliament more…

along with a yearning sense of independence rustling within the colonist them self. As the yearning grew a sense of unification grew as well. The ‘Americans’ had started creating their own traditions and customs, largely due to solitary neglect from Britain, but the outcome of…