British Empire

• 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…

growing between the thirteen colonies and the British government. The British government attempted to stop the rebellious activity by taxing the colonies. This was met with harsh protests and more rebellion. After reviewing the PowerPoint, I believe that the colonist still had high hopes even after being defeated at several battles because they truly wanted what they were fighting for. The colonists really wanted their independence. I don’t think the British followed the tactics of the colonists…

numerous points of view throughout the novel. The book starts out with a man, who remains nameless, who is a part of the British military. The book describes a horrible ordeal that goes down in Boston, Massachusetts, which later you find out was the Boston Massacre. This event caused a great number of people on both opposing sides of the dispute to become frustrated. The British then began to place more and more taxes on the colonists. After the taxes were set in place, the colonists began to…

Thomas Paine wrote this paper to raise awareness, but remained anonymous to keep his life. In his pamphlets, Paine spoke about how wrong and twisted he believed the British government was. Common Sense was also heavily focused on how we need to win the fight against Britain and to gain our independence. For the first chapter in Thomas Paine’s pamphlets, a big focus was on monarchy and how it had a negative impact on…

the collapse of previous empires and new institution of European white minority rulings over a black majority. Unequal representation in the government led to the oppression of the rights and voices of Africans in the European government. During the years 1964-1979, Rhodesia fought for their independence that was achieved through the Rhodesian Bush War. The spark that caused a push towards the revolution was at first because of land dispute among the locals and the British foreigners. This lead…

in the year 1775 and ended in 1783, the fight for American independence was long sought for. However, independence was not the only thing missing from the previous Thirteen British Colonies, economic developments were being fought for as well. The American Revolutionary War pitted Great Britain and the Thirteen British Colonies against each other where the end result was independence for the United States of America that was declared in 1776. There were also political and social aspects…

The Revolution was initially started because of poor representation of the thirteen North American colonies by British parliament, which forced mandatory conformity to the king during the later half of the eighteenth century. Majority of the population of the colonies were opposed to separating from Great Britain, since they were already comfortable with living under British rule. Many colonists did not want to separate from Great Britain because then there would be casualties from war, economic…

Elephant,” George Orwell’s famously anti-imperialist essay, brings to light the complicated idea regarding the malleability of one’s conscience and questions the stability of a moral code. He begins the essay by recounting his time in Burma as a British officer, and how his hatred of imperialism was becoming overshadowed by the Burmese peoples’ distaste for his fellow colonizers and him. He wished to gain the trust and respect of these people in order to put this cognitive dissonance at rest, so…

The British in A Passage to India believed that they “were necessary to India; there would certainly be bloodshed without them” (Forster 103). The Indians, on the other hand, did not feel the same way; they were being oppressed in their own country and they could do very little about improving their lack of power. The English’s strong control is epitomized when two English visitors go on a trip to the Marabar Caves with Doctor Aziz, the main character. One of the English visitors is allegedly…

The thirteen colonies that became the United States had long been governed by the British Empire, however in the late 1700’s the citizens of these colonies had gotten past fed up with British rule, and the first seeds of the American Revolution grew. People of color as well as women longed for access to equal rights and suffrage in democracy. Although white men were already treated with this sense of social equality, they were displeased with the taxation without representation and inability to…