Former British colonies

change, they would still be running their empires in America and Texas. There were many similar and different reasons why Texas and the 13 Colonies were lost by their former rulers. Both Americans and Texans were each independent from their running governments because they were both isolated geographically. Unlike Texas, America had little interaction with the British before the revolution. In Texas, many cultural differences…

many points on why the colonies would be better off declaring independence from Great Britain. Paine also talked in an abundance of times of why the colonies would have to break away from Great Britain sooner or later . One point that Thomas Paine discussed is that he thought it would be a great idea to divide the colonies into six, eight, or ten districts so the colonies can separate themselves from Great Britain . Another point that Paine talked about was how the colonies would be better off…

There is another person who affected and shaped Philadelphia in 18the century, whose name is Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of the United States. If say William Penn determined the childhood of Philadelphia, then Benjamin Franklin is the one who witnesses the teenagerhood of Philadelphia, and saw it grew up to an attractive city. When Benjamin moved to Philadelphia from Boston in 1723, Philadelphia has already been a growing city but without many public services. He found the first…

According to (Barden, 2001), the Spanish were among the first Europeans to travel and settle in the New World and in what is presently the United States.By the year 1650, nevertheless, The British had already established a very dominant presence on the coast of the Atlantic in the process founding the very first colony in Jamestown, Virginia, in the year 1607. The main reason as to why the many people settled in the New World is that they were trying to escape the religious persecution.…

as a strategic advantage, but also for possible future concentration camps for Polish Jews, sent over by the Nazis. This was known as the Madagascar Plan. The main concern by the British was not just the issue of another concentration camp, but also to help the former prewar French government reclaim its colony. The British also wanted to use the positioning of the island, as a tool for invasion in order to later invade Burma, and take it back from the Japanese.…

France had claims to the Mississippi River, a major transportation hub, allowing them to greatly expand their trade. At the end of the war however, France’s rule in North America became nonexistent, making them no longer a threat to the English colonies. With a surplus of newly-acquired land, Great Britain was required to defend and maintain control of their expanded empire. However, Britain felt that the colonists were unfit and unwilling to defend the new frontiers of their vastly expanded…

ideas of old and new: monarchy vs republicanism, and slavery vs freedom. This conflict of ideas and interests was not exclusive to one event or one revolution. Across the broader Atlantic world, this clash played out countless times in the American colonies, Haiti, Spanish America, and the Caribbean. To fully appreciate the interconnectedness of how the American Revolution also led to the Haitian Revolution, it is crucial to look at the period from a broad context which examines the content of…

and decolonization of the British Caribbean territories, which was largely made possible due to the independence awarded following the Haitian Revolution in 1804. When Haiti’s thirteen year rebellion finally culminated in its recognition as a separate, sovereign country, this became the catalyst for revolution throughout the region, included North and Latin America. Slavery would be officially abolished in the British Colonies in 1834 through the passing of the British Slavery Abolition Act,…

I believe the British had the right to tax the American Colonies because they were British territories, received protection from the British Army, and the people who lived there were considered British subjects. While the colonists were unrepresented in Parliament, the laws of Great Britain were clear that the taxation of the American Colonies was completely legal and well warranted. Up until the 1760’s the colonist had enjoyed tax-free living. However, in Great Britain the native population…

winning the war but sometimes at a cost to their lives but slaves were no better off if America won. The colonists were gaining their freedom form an oppressive ruler if they succeeded but slaves only had their chance at freedom if they fled to the British. Thomas Paine,…