Colonies In Great Britain

The colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut made up the New England colonies. Most of the Europeans in the New England colonies were there to escape the religious persecution they faced in England. They practiced a lot of different things in these colonies compared to the middle and southern and colonies of colonial america.

During the time period of 1600 to 1776, the relationship between Great Britain and the colonies changed massively. The relationship between Great Britain and the colonies changed greatly because of three main reasons: the relationships that the colonies and Great Britain were built on, the struggles that the colonists faced because of their relationships with Great Britain, and the anger that the colonists expressed because of the ridiculous taxes that they had to pay. Once the colonists realized that they were suffering under British rule, most of the colonists became eager to be independent from Great Britain. The colonists’ Second Continental Congress believed that the acts and taxes created by the British Parliament were unconstitutional, unjust, and unfair towards the colonists and because of that belief, the Declaration signers forever changed our country.

Before the American Revolution, there are several British Colonies in the Americas. Not all of them participated in the revolution. There were 13 clones which ended up rebelling. These were Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Mary land,North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. The colonists wanted to be free from the England. They started to fight the soldiers of the English army in 1775. The Americans started a war with England. We call it the Revolutionary War. The American Revolution was on April 19, 1775 and is called the “shot heard around the world” It was named that because the hand draw action of the battles of Lexington and concord an the siege of Boston

Everyone has an external force that motivates them in some way that allows them to be able to go about their everyday lives and fulfill their ambitions. Within the years of 1580 and 1763 this force took the form of God. Around this same time was when the Chesapeake and New England colonies were in the process of being founded. As a result, these two settlements did nothing without referencing their actions to God. Due to this heavy focus on God as the reason behind every aspect of their lives, chaos began to sprout soon after the settlers began settling and started living their new lives in the colonies.

Whether or not the colonization of the British colonies was organized, is debated by many historians to this day. When the British arrived, they did not plan on colonizing the land. This alone shows that their plans were not very well thought-out. In addition, they claimed the land without any legal grounds, showing utter disrespect for those already living on it. Finally, they did not prepare themselves for the completely different climate and resources they would face.

    The United States would still be part of Britain if the revolutionary war did not happen, so what caused this war that made us split.  The colonies and the British used to be best friends, but then the colonist rebelled.  What caused the relationship between the British and the colonies to deteriorate. The relationship between the British and the colonies deteriorated because of the colonies restrictions, the colonists reactions, and the British reactions to the colonies reactions.

Danya Itani September 24 2015 Section 3A AP U.S. History – England’s Loss of Colonies How is it that England lost control over the colonies considering they held the world's greatest power at the time? After all, the British army was the best-trained, best equipped, and most professional army in the world. Though economically strained by debt from the Seven Years War the empire was stable enough.

It is the year 1765, we shouldn’t be taxed on silly things such as paper. I am upset that the British Parliament believes that they if they have debt, they can automatically just tax us and everything will be fine. The Parliament is doing the wrong because they did not have the colonies consent to tax us. The British Parliament should not be able to tax our colonies without our consent. I am a man who believes in freedom, we should not have to follow everything that they say.

The establishment of the original thirteen British colonies was not the first time that foreigners had reached the present-day powerhouse of a country, which is the United States of America. One example of Europeans in North America before the colonists was the French fur traders had frequently traded with the Native Americans. However, when the settlers arrived in the swamp studded marshes of James’ Town, which was the first colony, they must had been upset, as they were primarily after valuable minerals: gold, silver, as Britain’s economic system, at the time, was mercantilism—in which the main goal was to increase a nation’s wealth by regulating all of the nation’s commercial interests. Before the settlers arrived in the New World, French had traded some with the Indians. In A Micmac Indian Replies to the French, the French called the Native Americans’ home a “little hell”, a statement that the Micmac Indians didn’t find too tasteful—the Micmac Indian leader then asked why the French would leave their paradise, and risk their lives to reach a “little hell” . This reply from the Indian leader shows a few things—first, the Indians weren’t too impressed with the customs of the French, second—the Indians were knowledgeable of how important, as well as costly, their homeland was to the Europeans—and what goods it contained. Lucky for the settlers, one of their other interests was in the new world in plenty—land. One of the reasons the Europeans needed land so badly was that

While America was founded on protecting essential liberties of its citizens, from an economic standpoint Britain was not necessarily oppressive. They had the legal right to pass laws for the colonies. The problem that many of the colonists had been that Great Britain usually left the colonies alone to do their own thing so when they did interfere many colonists did not like that. One misconception is that high taxes played a factor in the Revolutionary war, but in actuality it was the fact they were being taxed without representation. Some of the taxes that were passed were the Stamp Act(1765) and the Townsend Acts(1767). Many colonists felt like they should not have to pay these taxes because they were passed by the English Parliament, and not by the colonial

Although there were many changes during this time period in terms of their views on self-government, they still considered themselves a part of the British Empire. Even during the Tradition of Neglect, they only lost faith in the current government, not all of England. The colonies relied on Great Britain for many of their resources, as well as their economy. There was extensive trade between England and the colonies, and both places relied heavily on the income that was created from participating in the Atlantic Trade

William Tweed once said, “The way to have power is to take it.” That is exactly what the British did in the 1800’s, when power took the form of resources, land, and colonies. Britain owned a vast empire that subsisted of the colonies of India, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and many others that together made Britain the most powerful country of the century. By providing resources such as coal, diamonds, silk, and spices, these colonies were the fuel to the British automaton.

The main notable development that the British Empire brought to India during their colonisation was the railways, otherwise known as “Railroads of the Raj”. First proposed in 1846 by Thomas Williamson, the revenue commissioner of Bombay, who stated that “Commercially, it would be best for the cotton of Berar” while also allowing an “immediate direction of the military stations” (Williamson, 1846). Through this it is clear that the main objective for the railways was for development commercially and for quicker and faster links to and for the military. In 1850 the production began and by “1900 there was over 24,000 miles of railway tracks that had been laid” (Kerr 1997). The development of the railways gave the impression that it was going to largely benefit India, and mainly India’s economy, by increasing trade and transportation, almost bringing India into an age of an Industrial Revolution, just as the railways had done for Britain in the 1800’s. However, this particular introduction made by the British to India proved detrimental to their economy. “The railway project was enormous and was funded entirely by British private investment capitals” (Satya 2008). These private companies operated their railway lines with a “guaranteed 5% return on their investment which was assured by the Indian revenues of the empire” (Satya 2008). This was one of the biggest reasons why the railways caused a decline in India’s economy. This guarantee system promised that even if the companies

Through the eyes of Great Britain, the colonies served as an area of nearly limitless raw materials that were unavailable in Europe and as an area that could serve as a market for English goods and textiles. Although the American colonies conducted a large amount of their trade with the British Empire, they soon began to realize that they could obtain the goods that they desired for less if they decided to trade with other countries. The colonies were known to import large quantities of goods from Europe because most of the commodities that were essential to their current lifestyles were only produced overseas in Europe. This heavy reliance on certain goods eventually allowed the British to institute a monopoly on certain textiles, foods, and other commodities. However, tensions began to rise following the realization by the British that the colonies had begun to conduct trade with countries other than themselves. This discovery inadvertently prompted Parliament to introduce the Navigation Acts which imposed strict regulations and laws upon trade and further outlined how the colonies were to conduct trade between themselves and the British Empire. However, unbeknownst to the British, these laws served as the catalyst that allowed the practice of smuggling and piracy to take hold within the colonies and these activities soon became a very lucrative business for all of those involved. Furthermore, the establishment of these acts unknowingly led to a recession that

When a mighty imperial power adds a new territory to their already enormous empire; the new territory must be pacified in order to control the people of the newly annexed land. Colonization, in which the colonizer introduces new ideas to the native people, results in a culture being nearly wiped from the face of earth. A prime example is found in the Algonquin language of Mesquakie, (a language spoken only by somewhere around 1000 people). The reason this ancient language is in such bad shape is due to the racism expressed by the Caucasian people in the process of colonization. Chinua Achebe clearly demonstrates the harmful effects colonization has on Umuofia in the book Things Fall Apart, a novel about a man named Okonkwo and the changes he experiences during the British colonization of his home :Umuofia, the British forces western education, Christianity, and their court system upon the Igbo people which in return severely damages their culture. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe demonstrates how the education of Igbo children, the religion; Christianity and the new court system imposed upon the native Igbo people results with severe damages to their culture which escalates to the death of the beloved main character Okonkwo as well as the near disappearance of their culture.