Comparing The Mutiny And The Rebellion

The following paper, through the mind and words of a fictionalized character, examines the crucial issues and various changes the imperial relationship between Great Britain and its North American colonies underwent in the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Drawing upon various historical events and enactments, the story of Gerald Gardner, a Bostonian merchant, will try to synthesize these events and provide a reflection upon the American Revolution from the point-of-view of those who shared his line of work. While the following opinions expressed display the feelings and attitudes of one man, the same cannot be applied historically to all of the merchant class. The characters and

2. Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonial resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.

In chapter five of Give Me Liberty! , Eric Foner asks a very interesting question of the reader. The question the author poses is “What key events sharpened the divisions between Britain and the colonists in the late 1760s and early 1770s?” (Foner 174). This question is important because it allows one to gain a better understanding of why the colonists will take the actions they do and why some of the events in the 1770s occur.

a. The British people are referred to as “our British brethren.” They and the colonists share a “common kindred”. But they, like King George, “have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.” Thus, the British people must be held, like the rest of the world is help, as “enemies in war, in peace, friends.” The king and Parliament bear the brunt of the colonist “wrath.” It is the king who is charged with all their grievances. His history is one “of repeated injuries and usurpations.”

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This document takes many of the ideas presented in the other documents that have been examined in this essay and “ties them all together” into one set of formal complaints against the British monarchy. Like the other documents, The Declaration of Independence states that the British king has “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations” and attempted to arbitrarily assert his power over the colonies (Document 7). The Declaration also states that “in every stage of these oppressions [the colonists had] petitioned for redress in the most humble terms” (Document 7). These two statements show that the colonists’ repeated attempts at peaceful solutions to their problems with the British government were never taken seriously and that the king took every petition and grievance as an opportunity to usurp the colonists’ rights as British

¬Though not entirely representative of their political factions, Thomas Paine and James Chalmers are major literary figures in describing loyalist and anti-loyalist sentiments in pre-revolutionary America. While Thomas Paine argued for America’s independence, James Chalmers counters the idea by proposing some of the possible negative consequences as well as down-playing the perceived necessity of declaring independence. The major points of contention in both of their arguments deal heavily with the outcome of the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) including the government actions that were imposed upon the American colonies as a result. By examining the way in which they interpreted these events, one can gain insight into their contrasting political and philosophical ideologies of pre-revolutionary America.

For a better part of the eighteenth century, the American colonists expressed vexation and disapproval of the "coercive " acts, which the British Government perpetrated on the colony through series of legislative acts by the British Parliament. Prior to the acts that the colonists in America termed as atrocious and oppressive, they were willing to cooperate and reaffirm loyalty to the King of England. Some of the legislations and declarations that colonists participated in was the sustenance of British soldiers in the colony, payment of import tariffs and other forms of taxes to support the British central government. These are but a few, the reasons as to why colonists objected to the mode of British rule in America. Another concern was the "Rights violations" by the English government regarding economic progress and representation. Because of these grievances, British colonists in America stepped up agitation through violation of the "tyrannical" Acts and petitions through the Continental Congress. The essay explores the grievances that Colonists in America held against the British government, in riposte to "My Dear America Cousin" letter.

After the French and Indian War ended in 1763, Britain, in an effort to meet its financial short falls, increased its monetary demands on the colonies. The increase in taxes and laws was a difficult adjustment for the colonists and resulted in the widespread practice of salutary neglect – a lack of enforcement of the laws. In response to this, Britain tightened its control over the colonies by enforcing an increasing amount of royal policies in the colonies. The independent minded colonists, however, resented regulations. In response to England’s increasingly oppressive and heavy restrictions, the colonists’ demonstrations of protest escalated in intensity and violence, growing from respectful appeals to blatantly disrespectful challenge

Analyze the way in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.

The Upper Canada Rebellion was an uprising of “commoners” during 1837-1838 in the Great Lakes/Ontario area,it was incited by William Lyon Mackenzie(Library and Archives Canada), and focused on the issues of an oppressive overseas government,lack of representation and land inequities.However,my research question is, how similar are the American Revolution and the Upper Canada Rebellion? The American Revolution and the Upper Canada Rebellion are very similar with a few differences.The American Revolution shares with the Upper Canada Rebellion the traits of democratic principles,a fight against British rule and the element of being a “home bred” rebellion,however these rebellions differ in the fact that the Upper Canada Rebellion was highly centralized.

The Proclamation of 1763 portrays an example of a British action that brought forth change to the majority colonial viewpoint leading to the Revolutionary War (121). Understandably, the London Government was not keen on participating in another warlike situation with the Indians; nonetheless, the colonists were not having it (121). They knew this country had land, and they wanted it. The greedy American colonists wanted to be able to go where they pleased – why should they be restricted by some British law?

Describe the basic nature of the colonists’ reactions to Britain’s new policies after the Seven Years’ War.

Throughout the years many historians have compilated and examined why Indian people were so desperate to gain back their independence from the British Empire during their rule over India, from 1612 to 1947. The reasoning can most definitely be found as the British discriminated against Indian people as they believe that they were inferior; it is no surprise that Indian people fought so hard for their independence. Throughout the British Raj, they placed and put forward unbelievably racist acts and laws which discriminated against Indian people. Which of course led to Indians to rebel against the British rule and which the British reacted with causing massacres. Explaining the nationalistic many India’s felt during the British Raj.

The two sources featured in this analysis are both engravings of scenes from the Cawnpore Massacre during the Indian 'Mutiny'. The first is of the Massacre of English women and children freed by the Sepoys who tried to escape from Cawnpore by boat to the safety of Allahabad. The second engraving records the story of Judith Wheeler, daughter of General Wheeler, leader of those under siege at Cawnpore and her heroic stand against Sepoy attackers. Both are from Charles Ball's 'The History of the Indian Mutiny' which was first published in 1860, two years after the end of the Indian 'Mutiny'.