British Regency

Pokagon, Simon, “The Red Man’s Greeting,” Talking Back to Civilization. (1): 31-35. The several desires, lack of trust and nationalistic rivalries on the part of the non-Indians created conflict between the whites and the Native Americans that almost resulted in the destruction of the indigenous people. The Red Man’s greeting is an excerpt that narrates the actions that transpired between these two cultures. Pokagon describes how the whites came to the Native Americans under false pretenses…

During the expansion of imperialism, religious people sometimes set out to convert others to their religion and, thus their empire. Christian missionaries established churches in conquered territories. In doing so, they spread Western values. British missionaries led the charge to stop the slave trade while French missionaries in Vietnam, clamored to tale over the nation. There were many motives for the spread of imperialism. Without economic, exploratory, ethnocentric, political, and…

evade the Union ships used in blockades. Blockade-runners tended to be high-speed, vessels that had a very limited carrying capacity. Blockade-runners were supported and operated by sympathetic British forces that were Royal Navy officers that voluntarily took leave to assist the Confederacy. The British had set up Confederate resupply bases in the Cayman Islands as well as Cuba.…

Traveling aboard the Susan Constant 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 in a region that they decided to name Jamestown after one of the kings of Britain, known as King James I. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower which landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth were the two original colonies that settled in America, although these two colonies came to America about the same point of time they didn’t have the similar reasons for why to head…

Our Parliament’s act is called the Townshend Acts named after Charles Townshend who was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (or treasury department) and passed the British Parliament in an effort to exercise greater royal authority over the American colonies and to levy new taxes. The acts, sometimes were called the American Import Duties Acts and was passed in 1767. The Parliament’s reason for passing the act is Parliament still intended to raise money from the colonies to pay off Britain’s…

During the early 1800s, many European powers had decided to pursue colonization in an effort to access territories and natural resources, such as coal and iron. The person who caused this frantic chase of colonization was King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold hired Henry Stanley, an explorer, to travel “up and down the immense waterways of the Congo River basin” to set up trading posts, to build roads and to persuade illiterate African chiefs into signing treaties (Hochschild). Leopold II did all…

imperialism because Britain, who was supplying China with opium, continued to trade even after the Chinese government requested that they stop, thereby forcing their will upon the Chinese citizens. The second example also shows imperialism because the British and the Russians took control of Persian oil, thrusting their agenda upon the Persians by demanding concessions and using military to protect their interests. Finally, the third example shows imperialism because the United States intervened…

Aboriginals, Europeans committed countless atrocities in an attempt to clear out a land they believed belonged to no one (Fitzmaurice). As the native population in Australia decreased, the white population steadily increased thanks to the development of British migration schemes. With the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution; however, cheap labor became more of a necessity to business owners seeking to make a profit for their efforts. Rather than looking to the Aboriginal population to supply…

that the government has a duty to protect these rights. After Pontiacs Rebellion in which the British gave the Indians a “gift” of blankets infected with smallpox as the solution to put down the rebellion, the British issued a proclamation forbidding the settlement of anything west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was the beginning of colonial unhappiness and then eventual split of America from the British. Next came many taxes that they colonials saw as “taxation without representation” which…

decision was made to remain neutral in the conflict between the British and French, which angered both countries to the point where they began raiding and plundering American ships attempting to results import to either opposing faction. However, Napoleon realized the opportunity to further impact British economics and American sentiment towards Britain, and he recognized America’s impartiality in the war (Schultz, 2014). Moreover, the British were supporting the Indians in anti-colonial…