Former British colonies

their British sovereign, because of their unfair taxes and rights, was not worth it. They were called different things, like Tories, Royalists, and Kingsmen and one of the ways that the British were able to sign people on were by offering freedom to the African American slaves. The British were willing to grant freedom to the African American slaves who helped support their cause. This motivated many slaves to join in order to get away from their slave masters. After the war ended, the British…

The American Revolution in 1775-1783 was caused by the outcome of the French and Indian War in 1754-1763. Where the British fought with the French and had given the colonists a bad impression of the British goal. Due to the heavy debts, the British had no choice, but to tax their colonies.Which angered the colonists and led the people to rebel against their king. Throughout the revolutionary war, the people began to have different thoughts on their political future. There were 3 “Classical”…

1960 British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan once gave a speech in South Africa known as “The Wind of Change Speech”. Macmillan said, "The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it” (Baker 179). Macmillan was reinforcing that decolonization is taking place in Africa. Most of the European powers had African colonies,…

outbreak of an anti-British rebellion. The introduction of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle was the main cause of the rebellion. The cartridges that contained the gunpowder were greased with animal fat. While Muslim soldiers were prohibited to eat pork, it was forbidden for many Hindu soldiers to eat beef. Due to these religious views, a colossal uproar was caused. Thereby, many Indian soldiers refused to use weapons and follow orders. After the British government dissolved the British East India…

The American Revolution granted the former U.S. freedom from Great Britain. The Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain brawled against one another; the thirteen colonies objective was to become independent, while Great Britain fought to maintain its power over them. The war lasted about eight years, from 1775 to 1783, and consisted of many contributing factors that would eventually lead in freedom for the colonies. Important aspects include, by what means the war commenced, certain acts, colonial…

The American Revolution certainly is a breathtaking era in God’s unfolding story. Friction between England and its colonies emerged most notably after the Seven Years' War. Before the war, the British government had undertaken minimal contact with or interference in the internal affairs of their settlements, aside from passing the Navigation acts that dictated the shipment of goods(Marston, 2003). However, the price of war racked up a hefty debt that made the country see an error in their…

end of colonialism. The people of the colonies did not necessarily see European rule in the same light as it is seen today. I will argue that Western education positively helped the eventual independence of colonies because it taught natives the European assumptions of freedom and equality, thus providing the framework to become an independent state. I will specifically compare and contrast British approaches to education to British India and Africa. British India provided an apropos example of…

liberties of the colonies rather than to create new ones.” Class distinctions were real, but there was less poverty than in England, and there were “easier relationships among the classes”; there was more economic opportunity, and all free men bore the same status before the law (excluding black and white women). The revolution was sparked by the British government suddenly attempting to increase control over the colonies and extract for revenue, specifically from taxes. The colonies…

its colonies did not have a mutually beneficial relationship due to mercantilism and the 1651 Navigation Acts, which restricted the American colonies’ trade partners to only their mother country. This greatly narrowed their their trade options while simultaneously enriching the crown with the wealth of thirteen other territories. The French and British maintained several differences in their colonization of North America. Settlers emigrated from each country for different reasons; the former…

With the declared independence from British imperialism beginning in 1775 and becoming official in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, a lot more changed than just the type of government present within the former colonies. The very ideas that sparked revolution were enough to set in motion many changes to contemporary society, politics, and even economics. The idea of resisting the imperial power that so much of the population of the colonies had become complacent in being submissive to…