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technologically superior US, the Filipinos had to result to using guerilla tactics (Schirmer 10). These tactics greatly prolonged the war and the Americans began to become increasingly frustrated. This led to the little known atrocities committed by U.S. troops. Reports of the burning of villages, and the killing of non-combatants and the application of water torture began to make their way stateside through letters written by U.S. Soldiers (Schirmer 13). Eventually the U.S. captured Emilio…

1. Buganda Agreement of 1900 was a collaborative agreement between the British administration and the Buganda chief. The agreement consisted of the Buganda people paying taxes to the administrative heads residing in their lands, while the social status quo of the Buganda people stayed intact. Hierarchy of rule did not change. This all happened juxtapose to Harry Johnson establishing a system of land tenure 2. Githaka was the gathering of land owned Mbari. Mbari was a clan of elites and their…

The acts passed by the British generated angry and motivated colonists. The British were not intentionally trying to infuriate the colonies; they had to find ways to get themselves out of war debts. But for every British action on the colonists, colonials had an overwhelming animosity toward their homeland. The reoccurring taxing prompted the colonies to rebel against Britain in attempt to become their own independent country. Striving to reduce the smuggling of Sugar into the colonies from…

Secondary 4 Integrated Humanities Scenario Study 1 (2016) Assignment 1 Name: Claire Mak Class: Sec 4 / 08 Analyse the causes of conflict in Angola. Background of the Civil War in Angola The Angola civil war that began in 1975 has its roots in the fight for independence from Portugal starting in 1961. During the struggle for independence, three main insurgent groups were formed. They are People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), National Union for the Total Independence of Angola…

land. The British were in great debt and didn’t have the money to send troops over to protect the colonists that wanted to settle in the West of the Appalachian Mountain. The British then issued the Proclamation Line of 1763, which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountain. The Proclamation was widely ignored by the colonists who continued to pour…

colonists more directly, their responses grew to involve more violence, massive riots, and boycotting of goods. The Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, and the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament between 1765 and 1774, highlight the varying extent of colonial…

The French and Indian war remains a very consequential war because it changed the fate of North America. Before the war, there was an “Imperial rivalry between Britain and France” (Brennan, slide 4) that had persisted for centuries. This divide was inflamed by conflicting claims to land in the Ohio river valley; where the British had settled and the French had built forts. The war began when general George Washington led an attack on France’s Fort Necessity. France emerged victorious here, but…

of stalling with the French, to reduce the amount of their men used against them. These were the accounts that the Minutemen played in conflicts from the earliest colonial times through the French and Indian…

Up until the 1770’s few Americans were thinking about independence from Britain, and the struggle was framed in the terms of colonial protests seeking redress for grievances( Hugh Dussek). Increasing tension eventually led to the declaration of independence and in turn resulted in the revolutionary war. All of the tension resulted in an overwhelming amount of motivation for the American colonists, they had a reason, an incentive to fight, whereas the British soldiers had little if any motivation…

prevalent being the severance of the Colonists from the British Parliament rule. More specifically the Colonist, due salutary neglect, the settlers were able to practice sovereignty. As a result, they were able to create a governing system that met their colonial needs. The French and Indian War was the wat that gave rise to a new nation. A nation which would eventually become one of the most power and…