Dutch East India Company

establishment of new types of colonies and transoceanic empires between the British and one of the other countries you have studied about in this section. Answer: 1. British: The British, during the age of imperialism, wanted to expand their grasp beyond just India and into Africa. In Africa, the British had quite a bit of trouble colonizing the area because of several factors, first of all, when the British entered Africa, they met a barrage of diseases such as Yellow fever, Sleeping sickness,…

I. British East India Company was given right to monopolize the colonies. A. The cost of tea from the British East India Company decreased. B. They were losing massive amount of money to smugglers. C. Indemnity Act was passed by the Parliament in order to help the company. II. Britain imposed unfair taxes on tea. A. Britain sought for ways to impose taxes. B. Three tea ships arrived in Boston…

In December 16, 1773, British ships carried 500,000 pounds of tea from the East India Company to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charles Town. The citizens didn't want the tea to come, thinking that it would kill the American profits and get everyone one out of business. The Sons of Liberty made plans to stop the tea. In Boston, the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians, and boarded the ships filled with tea. They tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This raid was known as…

centerpiece of the picture, as Chinese dishes, commonly known as china, were very popular in Dutch life. China became a commodity among all Europeans due to its elegance and quality. Not only was it popular as decoration but, “these dishes became part of the emergence of a newly popular painting genre, still life’s, which seventeenth-century Dutch artists turned into an art form.” Not only do I think the Dutch liked these dishes, but I think they also showed their sophistication and connections…

becomes so low that the tea coming from the British East India Company is now cheaper than the tea that the colonies are smuggling in from the Dutch. They’ll get cheap tea even with the tax. The colonies are very upset. The Committees of Correspondence, with people like Samuel Adams in charge, (“emerging as the supreme genius of revolutionary agitation” (Tindall & Shi, 125)) interpret this as a trick. They will not pay the tax. The British East India Company ships come in with tea but no one…

The ship supplied by the Dutch was confiscated because the English were upset Hudson was exploring for another country. However, Hudson found that private inventors, the Muscovy Company, and the Britsh East India Company would supply him with a ship. Aboard Discovery, the Henry Hudson's final ship in 1910, Henry Hudson went around the southern tip of Greenland and entered…

It depicts how the Dutch trading company was a major part of the trade. The picture that Vermeer display shows for instance a European explorers receive from the Indigenous people and ships sailing to China to build a strong trading connection between the European and Asian empire. The world that Vermeer’s was living in was an intimate experience because he depicts the world he lived in to be as wide as ours and probably very busy. The Author wanted to express how the Dutch was pretty much…

Mahicannituck River. Today, it’s called the Hudson Bay. Henry Hudson, confident that he found the way, could not continue the voyage because the water grew too shallow. Sailing back to Europe, he was offered gold by King James I to leave the Dutch East India Company and find the Northwest Passage for England. Agreeing to the offer, he set out for his fourth and final voyage. In July, his crew sailed through the Hudson Bay once again, seeking for a way west. Spending months trying to map the…

the tea business. The British made a deal with the East India Company so that only their tea would be sold in Britain and its colonies. With this being the only place to buy tea, the East India Company could charge whatever they wished for tea, no matter how high the cost. This was a big problem for many, especially those in America. The colonists in America did not want to pay such high prices for tea, so instead, they began to buy tea from Dutch smugglers. This act was risky and they knew it…

1-The American enlightenment was a development to organize the human limit for a reason as the most elevated type of human accomplishment. The most conspicuous of the Enlightenment thinkers were John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. This ideas inspired both harmony and conflict with religious leaders. Settlements faced off regarding how the Enlightenment idea of “natural rights” may impact their activities as pilgrims under the tenet of the British crown. Also America’s first college, Harvard…