ECONOMICS - The Necessity to Become Independent
Why should tiny Britain control a big country like America? For instance Britain and the thirteen colonies were about 3000 miles so why would they tell the colonist be told what to do? In order for them to become their own country they would have to fight for their independence. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, in 1776, to explain the reasons on why they wanted to become their own country. In addition Paine explains how economics was a big cause on wanting independence from Britain. The cause of the American Revolution that led to the establishment of the U.S. due to the economic implications were taxation, commerce, and expansion.
Commerce had been around for years and still to this day it is going on. In the 1700s, the slave trade was very common almost everywhere in the world. Most slaves were captured from Africa and taken to the colonies. The triangle trade route was very useful when slave trading because it would benefit Britain. They would build their country’s wealth by exporting more goods than they were importing making them more money. This route would start in the ports of the colonies, then to England, finish at Gambia, Africa and return to
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Especially since Britain made the Proclamation of 1763. This affected all the colonies and the colonist were not happy about it. Expansion was what many of the colonists wanted to do for a couple reasons; one they were growing in population and second there was more land meaning more possible resources. The reason they did not want the colonist to move west was for the benefit of the British. If they were to move west and leave the coasts, it would be difficult to collect their taxes and trade with them. They were afraid if they move west, then they would lose control because of how much farther they
This was an exchange of people, animals, diseases, plants, technology, ideas, and culture between The Old World, New World and Africa that started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, thinking he’d hit India. The triangle trade provided the New World (America) with food, animals, and diseases from The Old World. Africa gave the New World slaves, and the New World gave the Old World gold, silver, and raw materials.
Triangular trade is when the New Englander, moved rum to West Africa on a ship in exchange for slaves. The ships took the slaves to the West Indies to be sold
Trade during colonial America was done between Europe, Africa, and the New World. They traded food, natural resources, animals, and slaves. History proves to show that trade highly increases economies and through the Triangular Trade route the economy of the colonies shot up. It was really easy for colonists to buy slaves from Africa and have them shipped across the Middle Passage just as easy as it was to be over an indentured servant. As stated above, colonists preferred slaves over indentured servants, so they chose African slaves. This allowed for a rapid growth in the number of slaves within the British North American colonies that increased trade and economic power for the colonies.
The Triangular trade was a trade system among Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Europe made manufactured goods such as textiles, gun powder, firearms, iron and copper bars, alcohol, cloth and brass kitchen ware. These were traded in Africa for slaves, gold, and silver, which were transported to the Americas, where they were exchanged for tobacco, fish, lumber, flour, sugar cane, cotton, and distilled rum. This merchandise was then brought to Europe, where the cycle began again. The Triangle Trade was very
One huge cause is that british leaders were scared that more fighting and battles would take place on the frontier is colonists kept sneaking onto American Indian soil. If it’s American Indian soil then they shouldn’t be on it. The effect of colonists trying to keep getting on American Indian soil is the banned all colonists from going west of the Appalachian mountains. They could not go west of them at all. The only people that could go west of them were licensed traders. Although the proclamation of 1763 seems like it was a brutal treaty between the french and the Indians but it was really a peaceful treaty between the two. Also, the proclamation was one of the leading causes of the Revolutionary war. It was a huge factor in the war. It was one of the most important events in US history that led to give us freedom as well. Another reason for the proclamation was fur trading. The british winning in the french and indian war enabled them to monopolize the fur trade. The british wanted to improve and expand and make the trade bigger and further it out and that involved the Native American Indians who were living on the frontier. All of the fighting to monopolize the fur trade in the french territory created the battle known as the beaver wars. So the Proclamation led to the start of the beaver wars. So those are some of the causes and effects of the proclamation of 1763 and some of the events it led
Thomas Paine believed that the US needed independence mainly for three reasons. First of all, the US had larger land than Britain. Britain wanted the resources from the US to build the mainland of Britain. Also the Britain government was fighting with the colony people. Thomas Paine thought that it was unfair if the British fight with them and take resources from them at the same time. If they got chance to be fully independent, they can trade their resources with other countries in the world and became powerful. Secondly, he thought if they did not break with Britain, they would not able to get help from other countries in Europe because other countries did not want Britain to be the most powerful country in Europe. If they broke with Britain, other country will help them to fight against Britain. Third reason was they just want to be an independent country. They did not want to be ruled by other people anymore.
Britain decided that London should control the expansion of the West. They did not want the colonists to be able to flock westward as they believed this would antagonize the Indian tribes and possibly cause another war. As far as the colonists were concerned, their victory in the Seven Years War, or the French and Indian War, was reason enough to allow them to move westward as they pleased. The Native American Tribes, although they had to give up more of their land to the settlers, were in agreement of the Proclamation since they did not want the white settlers infringing on their territory. The British established four distinct governments under the Proclamation to rule the colonies. The appointed heads of each government were also in charge of Indian relations and the relationship between the Natives and the British improved as a result. In the end, though, the colonists disregarded the Proclamation and pushed westward further into the Ohio
Sometimes people may wonder what made America want to be independent. Britain and the colonies never truly had issues with each other. They hardly ever even interacted. This was known as Salutary Neglect. “For 1714 to 1763, British generally allowed the colonies freedom to pursue their economic interests. The colonies were politically independent and self-governing.”1 But Britain always thought they were better than the colonies. There were numerous occasions where the British did the colonies dirty. The colonies helped Britain fight off the Indians and what did Britain do? Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763. “The Proclamation Line forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.” The colonist were furious about this. Not only did the Proclamation of 1763 happen that year, they also ended Salutary Neglect. They just helped Britain get this land, and now they were being told they couldn’t even be on the land and it belonged to the same
In 1763, the British defeated the French, as a result the British took control of lands that had been claimed by France. The Proclamation of 1763, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. Many colonist felt that the object of the proclamation was to pen them along the Atlantic seaboard, where they would be easier to control. The proclamation stated that all lands west of the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off limits to the colonist. This left the colonist feeling a strong resentment, because what they perceived to be their prize was snatched away from them.
America has gained independence from England has become the most powerful country on Earth, but what if the people who were in America didn’t want to gain independence they wouldn’t be the most powerful country right? Actually that was the case because a lot of the continental congress didn’t want to gain independence from England. The idea of being able to choose their own self government influenced the patriots and then they want to declare independence since they didn’t like how the government worked in England and they wanted to choose their own government. The idea of self government changed the continental congress’s whole view about independence from Britain. Imagine waking up and getting a random soldier ring your doorbell, and then you have to give the soldier a shelter, some food and anything else they need, well that was one of the laws the British government made for the colonists.
With the European discovery of the New World, African slave trade began to grow. Slaves were traded and bought and then shipped to some other place and then sold. Europeans would trade things for slaves then bring them to places like the West Indies and sell them. They would then buy goods and bring the goods back to Europe. This was the triangular trade system. Slaves played a vital role in trade all over the world, old and new. Although African slavery had already existed, there were many reasons as to why it was needed during the Atlantic World and there were many effects of this.
Britain noticed the problems that would face with the Natives so they made the Proclamation of 1763. It was then made to further prevent anymore future conflicts with the Natives because of Britain’s huge debt. This angered and confused the colonists, they had just fought two wars for land and they couldn’t even move into it. The colonists complained that they had the right to reside wherever they wanted. This was the beginning of many unfair and unjust laws and acts Britain
Being dependent on Great Britain compromises the social, political and economic freedom of the American colonies. Without independence, the colonies will still be guided by the rules of the British and will not be free to do as they would wish. According to Paine, the most important points to note regarding the necessity of being independent of Britain are trade relations, injuries and other disadvantages brought about by the wars Britain is having or likely to have and political freedom. Being dependent on a particular country or continent would imply that one enjoys only the opportunities enjoyed by those they countries they depend on. There are many opportunities that the American colonies can enjoy even when
In the 1600’s the Dutch settled in what we now call New York. The Dutch called it New Amsterdam. Their main purpose of settling was to set up trade operations. Their trading organization was called, The Dutch West Indian Company. This company was founded in 1621. Their main type of merchandise was tobacco, sugar, gold, and slaves. Their importing and exporting routes is what we know as the trade triangle. The three points of the triangle were
Many historians justify that the evolving of the industrial revolution was based on slavery and mainly the triangular trade. The triangular trade was the route taken by Europeans to transport goods to Africa in exchange for slaves to be taken to the Americans. The triangular trade was seen as the first system of global commerce which linked Britain, Africa and the Americans. The most important colonies for the sugar growth were West Indies islands. During the 17th and the 18th century Dutch settlers in Brazil had perfected their sugar cultivation at the same time the triangular trade was taking place between America, Britain and Africa. As the