British America

• Sugar Act, 1764 The Sugar Act, also known as the Revenue Act of 1764, was a law put in place by British parliaments. This act an d the first Revenue acts were passed by prime minister Sir George Grenville. He first tried to enforce an act in 1733 but it did not yield the results he expected. The Molasses Act of 1733 increased the tax on imported molasses, which made rum, and since Americans loved rum so much they found ways around the costly tariff. In actuality the act was simply an…

document that the United States of America should hold most dear. It is the document that gave birth to the nation, and it is the document that made a statement across the world. The Declaration of Independence is the document from which our unalienable rights, equality, and freedom stem. It was drafted to sever the political ties and connections between the American colonists and the British crown, and it served a purpose in making a stand against the tyranny of the British government. The…

The definition of an America has been built around the concepts of life and liberty for every citizen since its development as an independent nation. Americans are given freedoms that protect us, freedoms that allow us to live in peace, freedoms which protect every citizen from outside oppression. Over the span of 300 years of existence as an independent, self-sustained nation, The United State of America has withstood political,social, economic and cultural endeavours and continue to represent…

British Grand Mistakes The roars coming from the angry colonists, the gunshots fired by the colonists, and the smoke coming from from the gun fire. These horrific scenes took place in an event we call the Boston Massacre. This horrific event was a result of the many grand mistakes caused by the British. The British did not let the colonies have any word on the taxation laws being placed on the colonies. Little did the British know that this would eventually lead to a revolution that would lead…

pamphlet to advocate American independence and to openly request freedom from British control. He told Great Britain the advantages of being independent.This pamphlet inspired colonies. Thomas Paine wrote about how the colonies deserved to be free from Great Britain He believed that if all of the colonists would come together and support the fight for liberty that liberty would be won. The pamphlet stated his opinion on the British government and…

This is an argument that David Eltis supports in Chapter 10 of his book The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. To him, the flow of capital and labor to the tropical Americans from Europe was largely based on socioeconomic status as ‘success or failure would be measured by the same standards in slave and non-slave societies’ (1). He further solidifies his…

Great Britain desired to abandon its British North American colonies, since Great Britain was faring well on its own. To do so, Great Britain encouraged the BNA colonies to unite as a British dependency through confederation. Yet, Canada as a young nation saw Britain’s encouragement as a prospective idea towards its nation-building and independence. With confederation, Canada achieved greater self-reliance while remaining loyal to the British Empire. British patriotism was preeminent in Canada,…

other is very strong, despite their backgrounds. Cora being raised as British, meanwhile Hawkeye is adopted and raised by Native Americans. They are bonded through their similar perspective on the war. They both want what is best for…

In 1778, the American Revolutionary War was raging in the British Colonies. At this point of the war, the British had failed to accomplish their goal of quickly ending the rebellion and were trying to find a strategy that would defeat the rebel forces. Military historian John Shy describes this period in which the British strategy was changed by breaking up the war into three stages in his “The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War” chapter of his book A People Numerous and Armed.…

Japanese to build clockwatchers, or wadokei, inspired by Western techniques. Slide 10/11: In mid-19th century America arrived and established the trade. The industrial revolution in Japan first started with, cotton and silk, which were spun and woven in home workshops in rural areas. By the 1890s, Japanese textiles were mass produced and was a very successful and widely popular with British products in China and India. Japanese ships competed with European traders. they shipped the goods to…