British overseas territories

The American Revolution was caused by much more than the simple concept of no taxation without representation; its roots can be found dozens of years prior, in 1763 and the years that followed, as well as back to the early history of colonial North America. Two authors and historians, Colin Calloway, who wrote The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, and Eric Foner, who authored Give Me Liberty! an American History, offer two comprehensive viewpoints into the origins…

Slavery has always been an awful thing. But It can be denied it play a major role in our history. For the purpose of this historiographical paper I will focus in slavery in the United States in colonial times. Focusing on African women something that many historian agree hasn’t been talk enough. I will look at four different historians that focus their research in the lives of African women in the time of slavery. My first historian is Jennifer Morgan she wrote the book “laboring women’. In the…

Though many people are aware that women played a role in slave resistance, when there is discussion, it is portrayed as though women were not truly involved in challenging slavery and were not change-agents in the slave communities. However, this is not true because women were quite vital to slave resistance movements. There is ample research that proves they participated in both violent and nonviolent methods to confront slavery and the authority of the White man. Yet, there is little…

social, economic, and political conflicts with each other. First, the British believed that they were superior compared to the Indians, similar as to how Kenny’s behavior demonstrates his understanding of being better than Rukmani and other Indians. Additionally, Kenny and Rukmani’s behavior towards each other begins to deepen as they start to tell each other not only business matters but also private matters, just as the British started to hack away at India’s issues and began to solve them.…

to move towards independence and there was a developing sense of national identity as America had economically become a fairly self sufficient state. Arguments over taxes in America caused protests because many Americans felt under-represented in British parliament and therefore did not believe they should have to pay a direct tax. Americans had no representation in parliament and had no right to vote in Britain and therefore no say in what was done…

Nicolas de Largillière, a French artist known mainly for his portraits of the upper bourgeoisie, painted Portrait of a Woman in 1696 with oil on canvas. It can be found hanging in the European galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Due to a lack of evidence, the identity of the sitter has been widely debated. What can be gathered from records and documentation is that it appears to be either Madame Marie de Thorigny or Hélène de Thorigny; two women from the same wealthy family that…

These arguments disclose that America had flourished under British ruling and that they provided the colonies with much needed protection. Thomas Paine, in response to the former argument mocks it by saying, ‘’We may as well assert that because a baby has thrived upon milk that it is never to have meat.” This quote…

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 tax placed on tea by the British was a way to help the East India tea company, and it was politically significant. The Americans, at the time, had just had the Townshend acts repealed on common items such as glass, paper, and etc. however they were not satisfied until all taxes had been removed. This tax was barely anything for an average American. The Englishman who had maybe half an acre of land was not generating much revenue yet he or she willingly paid taxes of 50% of their profit. The…

and some troops built a small fort called Fort Necessity. After many casualties, Washington and his troops surrendered. Their defeat was the beginning of the French and Indian War. The British captured Quebec in Canada in 1759, gaining them the advantage in the war. The war lasted for nine years, but the British eventually won because they were willing to fund military in the Americas. The French preferred to spend money on military in Europe because of the conflict there (Encyclopedia…