British people

British people came to the new world to find religious freedom and to start new lives. Once they arrived and began to form colonies they were successful in many ways. The British King still wanted to control the people and profit from their success. The King as well as Parliament enacted many taxes, such as the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts, to try to control the colonists. As time went on the colonists began to resent the King and rebelled against him. The Founding…

The American Colonists vs. British Parliament The American Colonists had ample justification for waging war and breaking away from Britain. This belief is supported by four reasons. First, the colonists were not treated fairly by the British Parliament. Another reason is they had to pay extremely high taxes. Third, the “Boston Massacre” happened when Britain was abusing the power it had over the Americans. Lastly, the British were very aggressive towards the colonists when they did not need to…

Years’ War. This war started in 1754 and paired the British against the French in a battle for North American land. Prior to the war, there was much hostility in this area relating to colonial borders and trading capabilities with local Amerindian tribes. The war was primarily fought due to the importance of imperialism during this time. More land equaled more power and that is exactly what both countries wanted. When war broke out, the British allied with the Iroquois tribes and the French with…

to war against British, I believe that war was the only choice that Virginia had to freeing their people from the British Control. People from Virginia has been under the rule of British, they had to believe not just on Patrick Henry but in their right and freedom of their people. First of all British had all the power against Virginia, British would said that they want to make peace and live freely with Virginia, but if they really meant it they would be preparing for war. People should never…

it the responsibility of the people to form a new government. The British government committed several acts that exemplified its failure in fulfilling its mission of securing the unalienable rights including taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, and the Intolerable Acts. As a result of Britain’s failure to protect the colonists’ political freedoms, economic wellbeing, and safety, it is the duty of the colonists to declare independence and fight as the British government failed to…

experienced by the young British law enforcer in George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” was by the pre existing tension between the British Empire’s imperial rule over Burma, and the Burmese’s disrespectful actions towards his authority being enforced of the Empire. Orwell displays this conflict and tension as we see his use of symbolism and irony throughout the essay. As a matter of fact, Orwell’s symbolic use of the elephant shows both sides of the confliction between the British…

What happens to people's lives when their country is a colony of another country? This is what exactly the British did to Kenya. They took over and took most of everything from the Africans. And British had colonized 85% of the earth's surface by 1914. This affected the people very much because they had very little, even for themselves. Colonialism affected Kenya in many different ways. In the nineteenth century, all of Africa was placed under European control so no Africans attended…

When the British Empire started to expand, it was originally able to successfully meet the needs of all of its citizens, whether they were within the confines of the island or across an ocean, surrounded by enemy territory. The colonies formed with moderate amounts of direct help from Britain’s mainland government, who mostly intervened as needed to protect the colonists. Protection, as it began, was meant to be a physical defense, ensuring the safety of colonial boundaries from European…

How did the British settler colonies in North America differ from the colonies established in Central and South America? The British settlers wanted to escape the old European society. The Central and South American colonists added many of their old costumes from their homeland into their new society that the British sought to leave behind. Also, geographically the British settlers had an advantage; they had much more land, the climate in their regent made it easier for them to…

From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, nationalism in Britain drew citizens closer together to stand against the rising Napoleon regime. When Napoleon rose to power, the threat of annihilation forced British nationalism and, in turn, the mobilization of citizens into the military (Rothenberg 792). Napoleon had the mission to take over Europe and make France the centerpiece country. Martyn Thompson of the Journal of the History of Ideas quotes Napoleon in 1805 as…