Black British

For many years, India was treated terribly by British controllers and couldn’t do much to stop it. Britain controlled India for over 100 years until the mid 1900s for their textiles and natural resources. The British ruled India using a government system called direct rule, and kicked out the old Indian government to replace it with a viceroy. India gained independence on August 15, 1947, when Nehru passed a new declaration of independence and became the first prime minister of the country. Mohandas

its Interests in the Eastern Question from 1856-1902? Between 1856 and 1902 British aims were to secure trade routes, maintain the balance of power in Britain’s favour, have naval control of the Mediterranean and to safeguard India and North Africa against threatening powers such as France and Russia. These aims were fundamental to Britain at the time and heavily influenced British foreign policy including British involvement in the Eastern Question. Britain’s aims in the Eastern Question were

In North America many of the new colonies participated in free shipping trading with counties all over the world with little interference by Britain. However after the French and Indian which ended in 1763 the British wanted to recover the money they lost to supplying the war on multiple continents using tariffs and restrictions on colonial trade they did see an increase in revenue during that period. They did so by implementing a series of tariffs such as sugar acts, stamp acts, and the navigation

inevitable that complete emancipation would have to take place soon. Abolition of slavery was the question of the century which caused a lot of research where other nations have abolished slavery because they needed to create equality between blacks and whites. A great deal of thought went into deciding the release of slaves because it needed to be done in such a way to keep everyone united. Slaves also needed the right education provided and timing had to be right for releasing them into

B.) The origins of the American Revolution did not fall under one single event; tensions have been building up between the British Colonists (not under the title of “Americans” yet) and Britain for around a decade. The war would not begin till 1775 with the battle of Lexington and Concord. However, the Colonists “resisted” in other forms before this significant battle. Before we talk about the events that lead to the American Revolution, it is essential to know the state the world was in that caused

other hand, when the English took over New York, their guidelines for the slaves dehumanized them and put legal restrictions around them. Under the British rule, slaves were treated harshly and weren’t allowed to integrate with the other colonists, compared to the Dutch who were more tolerant and allowed the slaves to have some legal rights. The British came up with many laws that restricted and oppressed the slaves for their benefit, some of these laws included, that slaves couldn’t own land, couldn’t

of Tanzania. Tanzania plays a large role in this memoir as this is where one of the British outpost was located. Dahl says about Tanzania that "In 1919 after the Armistice, Germany had been forced to hand the territory the British, who renamed it Tanganyika." (Dahl 52). In fact, this is important because of the outpost it helped the British succeed in WWII. Tanzania during WWII was a valuable place to the British for their outpost. In addition, many people in Tanzania died during WWII from the

the evilness of the British and so when the patriots killed any British, it seemed that they are taking revenge and so the brutal actions of the patriots were acceptable. In one scene, the British regulars order the execution of a colonial soldier captured in uniform. In fact, such war crimes by regular troops rarely happened. In the most incongruous scene, the people of the entire town are locked in a church which is then set on fire. It is very hard to believe that any British soldier would actually

At the height of the British empire, lesser communities across the world faced social and economic burdens. Under imperial hegemony, the individual rights of the proletariat were denounced whereas the communal state power was reinforced by Britain’s focus on its military. For instance, as described in “Shooting an Elephant,” the people of Lower Burma, a newly acquired colony of Britain, faced substantial oppression from the Europeans. Likewise, the British in Burma, who were assigned to maintain

Liberia was the second free black republic but was established by white Americans based on racism. N/A Background info (Who, when, where, what) The US in the 1840s - Race relations - Slavery In the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, the U.S. Supreme Court denied citizenship to all slaves, ex-slaves and descendants of slaves and denied Congress the right to prohibit slavery in the territories. “The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa