British poems

The end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s sparked an era of imperialism within America and its citizens. This sense of imperialism included an induced drive in western settlement, annexation and occupation of countries and colonies, and manifest destiny. People like Frederick Jackson Turner, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt encouraged the settlement and expansionism. They all wanted to continue the growth of America’s influence and the world and wanted it to be a significant…

the history of the United States. One believes that the revolutionary war is a war that was needed. This is because without the revolutionary war, the United States would probably still be ruled under a Queen and King and we would all speak in British accents. The revolutionary war gave us freedom and the ideals of self- determination and liberty were fought for. Also, the declartaion of independence was a huge aspect that changed the nation. Afterall, it gave the United States independence…

The American colonists’ actions towards Britain were justified. The British habit of forcefully imposing taxes upon the colonists without their permission was unfair and contributed to the justification of the colonists’ actions. For example, the Stamp Act was levied upon a multitude of paper products used in everyday life and was considered “a very burdensome and … unconstitutional tax” (Doc 10) by the colonists. This tax caused some of the first sparks of American resentment towards Britain…

The British, French , and Spanish governments had policies that prohibited trade between territories owned by different countries. The laws forced all island plantation produce to be sent to Europe.The laws limited the amount of product coming in to areas that needed them, and forced people to smuggle them in, and also were a lot cheaper than the products sold by people such as the English. While smuggling was beneficial economically toward areas that needed them, they negatively affected legal…

The discourse of post-colonialism starts with the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism, a Palestinian-American critic, in 1978. He is the very first to write about how the West perceives and manipulates the knowledge of the East. According to him, the Europeans considered the Orientals a lower form of human beings. They considered it their duty to civilize them because they their selves did not have the knowledge of good and bad. In order to achieve this goal, they had to colonize and rule…

Two very important people during this time were Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both had very different viewpoints on a strong government, Alexander Hamilton favored it while Thomas Jefferson opposed it. Alexander Hamilton grew up having no money or family connections while Thomas Jefferson was very talented as a child and acquired his fathers land later on in life. Hamilton dreamed of national greatness, which depended on a strong economy. He wanted to expand the economy and increase…

colonies, including cochineal, the most valuable export after silver. Many European countries were envious of Spain’s success and engaged in espionage and piracy in order to gain a portion of the precious dyestuff. Spanish ships became targets for British navy and pirate ships. Obtaining the dyestuff would result in immense riches, but the “ability to steal cochineal from Spanish ships – and to make use of it in their own industries – was a point of immense patriotic pride” (118). Others…

exemplified by the relations between Britain and the American colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence, the colonists relied heavily for help and support on their British colleagues. But, this relationship fell apart as their alliance turned sour and they eventually turned against each other. As Pestalozzi and the British-American conflict demonstrate, man cannot rely on others, but must rely on himself. This reinforces Emerson’s idea of individuality to display that man must rely on…

large amount of historical data about two major opposing sides in the American revolution. He portrayed the British as the courageous ‘red coats’ and portrayed the American’s as the ‘rebels’. His work is complied in twenty-five short paragraphs, divided into three parts each in chronological order. Christopher Hibbert, wrote this narrative of history; primary from the loyalist and the British point of view on the American revolution, by collecting a vast amount of history from various…

were important, none were as important as the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. On that night, British soldiers opened fired on a mob of protesting colonials, killing three and wounding eight. This violent and malicious act against innocent colonists helped to show the people of the colonies that the British would never let them go peacefully, and that the only way to escape the grasp of the British empire was through revolution. On March 5th, 1770, colonial…