British Influence on the Hong Kong Government

Scottish author, Christopher North (also known as John Wilson) once said, “His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets” in reference to the large span of territory occupied by the British Empire. At the height of its power, Great Britain held territory on all of the seven continents and ruled over about one-fourth of the world’s population. A map of the British Empire in the 19th century published by the History of England shows that Great Britain occupied areas such as Canada, Australia, Egypt, South Africa, modern day India, Honduras, and many other lands. The primary purpose of British imperialism was to acquire as much foreign territory as possible in order to gain abundant amounts of raw materials and to create a market for British

Before 1600, many countries were looking to colonize the New World and one of those countries was obviously Great Britain. In an informative research paper called “The First Colonies North of Mexico”, it states, “Richard Hakluyt, a Protestant minister and geographer, wrote books urging colonization to accomplish five goals: (1) extend Protestantism, (2) expand trade, (3) increase England’s markets, (4) reduce unemployment, and (5) provide bases in order to attack Spanish ships in case of war.”(paragraph four) England’s first attempts of establishing colonies failed for multiple reasons, but

The Legislature power is a power that makes law for regulation of peoples and private organisations conduct, also structure and power of public authorities which is ran by the Parliament. This includes bodies such as House of Lords, House of Commons and the Queen. The Executive power is the administrative branch of government that implements the law, which are made by legislators. Bodies that regulate this are the Queen, Prime Minister, other Ministers, Civil service, police and armed forces. Introduction of the legislation, controlling security and public services, supporting prosperity and conducting the external relation of the state are the roles of the executive power. The Judiciary is the power that

Today’s world portrays countries that each have distinct characteristics religiously as well as economically. In the British colonies before 1700, the colonies could be dispersed into two distinct regions, the Chesapeake colonies, and New England colonies. Both areas varied in religion and economy, and thrived in different ways. For the New England colonies, the offering of religious freedom and an end to persecution in England caused many Puritans to sail to New England. However, the main motivation for people going to the Chesapeake colonies was to get rich fast, as well as other economic goals. All in all, the distinct traits of different regions of the continental British colonies caused the creation of two very distinct territories.

spanned around the globe. Britain’s colonial empire, in the making since the early 1700’s, still

In the mid-sixteen century, John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake raided a fleet of Spanish treasure that was sailing from the Caribbean. Their actions helped influence a war in 1558, where it assisted I n the defeat of a huge Spanish force. After the defeat of the Spanish force, English leader start to consider planting colonies in the Western Hemisphere. They argued that this would be a better way to gain better access to trade good and helped prevent their enemies from dominating in America. Eventually, the Western Hemisphere was controlled by the European Countries. European government took no time in controlling plants, food, landscaping and clothing. After the European government obtained almost all of the political power over 50,000 people fled to America, in hopes of better opportunities (Khle, 2009).

After the discovery of the New World, countries raced to expand their empires into the Western Hemisphere. Two countries that were dominating the Americas were Spain and Portugal. These countries were gaining much wealth and power from the New World, and it resulted in an economic boom in both empires. This encouraged other countries, like France and, especially, Britain to join in the competition. Britain joined the quest for land in the New World because they sought to expand their empire, and compete with the growing powers of Spain and Portugal. Britain quickly took the lead in the Western Hemisphere by conquering land from Natives along the eastern coast of North America. Soon, Britain was developing colonies all over the East Coast. Two regions in particular that Britain was controlling was the New England and Chesapeake areas. Prior to 1700, New England attracted many families to settle there, while Chesapeake attracted more men, New England was founded because of religious reasons, while in the Chesapeake, they first were searching for gold. Although they had differences, both New England and Chesapeake colonies had conflict with the Natives, and they both had internal struggles between the poor and the rich.

In the 1600s, England was eager to beat their long rival, Spain, to all of the rumored gold in North America. Britain had long wanted to be better and more powerful than Spain, so when Spain started settling colonies in America, England was quick to follow their lead. It all began when Britain gave a charter to the Virginia Company to establish a colony, and after that charter the British settled more and more of America. Even though all these colonies were established by Britain, there were many major differences between the Northern colonies and the Southern colonies. The North was much more diverse than the South because of its many job opportunities and attractive ideals that brought in settlers from all over Europe.

The Premiere is suggested by the president and verified by the congress. The other members of the State Council are suggested by the premier and verified by the congress. The State Council’s main functions consist of implementing the “principles and policies of the Communist Party of China”, accomplishing the regulations and laws and “dealing with such affairs as China's internal politics, diplomacy, national defense, finance, economy, culture and education”. (Government)

In 1607 the British began to colonize North America. Britain enforce certain rules, such as the colonies could only trade with its mother country, to make sure that it was the only country benefiting for the colonies. However there was a period of Salutary Neglect. “Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries” (Henretta). In this duration of time the colonies began to establish their own trade routes, politics, and procedures which helped form their sense of nationalism.

Ever since the first English establishment in the Americas, the colonies were never as close to their mother country. In fact, just before the Seven Years’ War, the British neglected (Salutary Neglect) the colonies, and allowed them to run on their own as long as they followed the British mercantilist

There are three different branches in the government. In these six different scenarios that were given in this prompt. The legislative branch represents the Congress. The congress is led by the House of Representatives and the Senate. What these two figures in this branch do is make the laws of the state. They have the power to pass laws, agree on treaties, and originate on spending bills. In the Executive Branch, it is represented by the president. In this branch the President has the power to propose laws, is in charge of the military, and has the right to veto laws. Last but not least the Judicial Branch, is represented by Federal Judges. They are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. In other words the Judicial Branch enforces the laws and makes sure people are following them as they should be (Branch, no date ).

After the Seven Years war England needed money to pay costs from the war. So they felt that the Colonies needed to help and pay some money for the costs. They even tried to control some of the Colonies territories, to insure that they receive the money they thought was owed to them.

mainly for financial gain, though some of the New England colonies were stuck out at first for the same

During the century, Britain continued to establish colonies in St Lucia (1605), Grenada (1609), St. Kitts (1624), Barbados (1627), and Nevis (1628), with the objective of finding gold deposits underneath the colonies. In the mid-1600s’, the British parliament attempted to further expand its British dominion by creating the first Commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell. Unfortunately, this did not last after the death of Cromwell. Finally the official creation of the British Empire started with the “Acts of Union of 1707”, which united the Kingdom of England with Scotland to form the “United Kingdom.” Throughout the four centuries of British colonization, Britain was able to colonize 52 regions, which now makes up 174 different modern day countries, provinces, or states.