British overseas territories

The Early Seventeenth Century of the English East India Company in the Spice Archipelago The English Company's first interest lay in the Malay Archipelago and the Spice islands, although from the start it faced considerable competition from Dutch merchants. The fleet of the first voyage (1600) visited Acheen in Sumatra and Bantam in Java; in both places the commander, James Lancaster, obtained permission to trade and to establish a factory. He also visits the Moluccas. The fleet of the second…

Olaudah Equiano was a famous African in London who had supported the British movement to end slave trading. Olaudah is known for his famous 1789 autobiography, which described his experience as a slave. The autobiography, The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, goes into detail of his experience of when he was kidnapped and sold to slave traders. Olaudah was one of millions of Africans who were taken from his homeland and sold into slavery.…

They hoped this would eliminate Britain from gaining too much authority against the colonies. This may have worked for some time, but British had a war to pay for and started to tax the colonies to pay their debt off. They started passing acts to increase tax on the colonies. This caused a change of opinion the leaders of the colonies to change their opinion. The British had forced them to completely change their direction for government in twenty years. To help…

If you were to travel back in time and live during the British Empire, you would see a world that is very different from the world that we live in today. You would see a world where discrimination runs rampant and gender and racial inequalities are prevalent. As seen in Philippa Levine’s The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset, particularly in the 8th and 9th chapters, the discrimination was mainly done by white males. Taking a closer look at the primary sources “The Ballad of East and West” by…

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. However, religion wasn’t the only concern. The ability to obtain property and an occupation had become difficult…

own kind. Soon to become nations of their own. The amplified event, trial, and article of the Boston Massacre have unquestionably been some of the most influential causes of American Revolution due to it being the first bloody contact between the British and the Colonists along with explicitness of the trials and the propaganda based articles. There were many instantaneous tensions that arose between the colonies and Britain due to the bloody incident. Nearly 165 years since the first…

introducing the western, civilized way of life. This was seen through language, religion, respectability, family life, etc. However, as the British cause penetrated the lives of the indigenous African peoples, and as the missionaries interacted more with their African natives, the individual perspectives of the missionaries began to contradict how the British went about in colonizing the Africans. Many foreign…

Winston Churchill 's wartime leadership empowered the British people and further demonstrated the intellectual capabilities and extremes of Churchill. He has been regarded as "...An inspirational leader, who seemed to typify Britain 's courage and perseverance in adversity and its conservatism in success." (Chen, “Winston Churchill.” World War Two Database). This quote shows that Winston Churchill personified all that was great about the British people and how they related to him. He has been…

began to question weather the information in the papers were true or false. As colonists questioned the papers, they started to question their daily lives and different ideas while they lived in British North America. The following events created changes in the ideas and daily lives of the people in British North America: the crown, the Glorious Revolution, natural rights, introduction to slavery, and mercantilism to capitalism. Tensions were high…

due to the fact that British colonial ways have been integrated into the community of Truth. The three ways that British colonial ways have caused a confusion of culture are the way the people in Truth think, the tools they use and how the people of Truth act. Each of these effects cause confusion in their culture. To start off, the first way that the people of Truth are loosing their culture is how they think about different situations. There are different stages of British colonial-like…