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Colonies: Discuss the primary motivations for the settling of Massachusetts (New England), Pennsylvania (Middle), and Virginia (Southern) colonies. Land, work, and freedom of religion were all encouraged colonists to settle the New World. As the English Civil War had raged on, religion in England had become extremely unstable, which encouraged many people to travel overseas for sanctuary. Such a colony, Plymouth, in Pennsylvania was founded under the Mayflower compact to tolerate Puritanism.…

Orwell and Kipling During the time of British imperialism in India, George Orwell and Rudyard Kipling depicted the effects of British colonization through their writings. Kipling and Orwell were both born in India and educated in England. Despite their similar backgrounds, each author portrayed colonialism differently. Kipling wrote a fiction short story about a man named Strickland, an English policeman, who is fascinated by Indian culture and is determined to learn more. He falls in love…

politician, philanthropist and cricketing legend Imran Khan. The British approached India at the commencement of the seventeenth century. With time, The British East India Company accumulated power and began to administrate the country. Nonetheless Indians detested its policies and together they revolted against the company. This led to the downfall of the company and the administration of India went directly under the Queen. The British annexed many princely states and formed laws and policies…

turning point in the relationship between America and Great Britain due to the change in economic policies, the limited expansion, and the restrictions of trade relations with England. At the point when the French and Indian War finished in 1763, no British citizen on either side of the Atlantic could have anticipated the upcoming clashes between the parent country and its North American settlements. Even so, the seeds of these conflicts were planted during, and as a result of, this war. Keep in…

different. One is a kind of invasion, and the other one is a kind of intercommunication. Nineteenth century is an unnecessary way for the growing of British Empire, Russian Empire, and United State. After the French Empire lost its force in Napoleonic Wars, the power of British Empire and Russian Empire became the greatest in this world. Then, the British Empire grows fast at the beginning of this century, and brought its power to Canada,…

century through the expansion of British Empire abroad, as well as other forms of encounters between British colonisers or conquerors and its vassal states. There has always, however, been a double aspect to such expansions. This gives clear attention to liberalism 's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and to inspire the audiences through the analysis of imperial rule. There are a series of arguments concerning the liberal critics of the British Empire. At a practical level,…

political view before, during and after British colonization will enable one to understand the impact the British had on Jamaica. In order to understand the effects the British had on Jamaica, one must know how the country was before it was colonized. The first Jamaicans were Taino Indians, stone-age people, who migrated and settled in Jamaica from the northern coast of South America around 600 AD. After almost 900 years, they were wiped…

ground while taking all their goods but leaving them to rote. “The English had 960 people controlling India but only 60 of those people were Indians” (doc 2) which might have been a good thing to the english because they then would have more power over the people but then having the 60 Indians that they did also let them have just enough of their own kind over them but not enough that they couldn’t control and handle. The British controlled India with a hard hand and the need to change…

that the English taking over India is a bad thing, and then begin to list off all the poor things that they had done to India, but never stop the consider and/or say all of the positive things that the English actually did for the Indians. To start off, I’m going to explain the positive things that England did for India, then explain and begin to deconstruct the counterclaim and why I disagree with them, I will explain these from political, economic, and social points of view. British…

up with Britain and fighting for their right as an independent country? Well yes, Americans were justified in waging war with Britain because of violation of English rights, lack of representation in parliament, and zero approval of colonists on Acts and Taxes. Americans starting war with Britain was necessary because of violation of English rights. In document…