He fought against Spanish rule in 1811 with the inspiration of George Washington. After eight long years, he brought an army together and crushed the Spanish army of Colombia. The occupation of his forces led to the Peninsular War, which gave the Spanish Creole an opportunity to gain independence from their mother country. This resulted in a series of revolutions that took place all over Spanish America. This revolution has a great impact and long-lasting implications on the countries in Latin America.
Pitt's financial policies in this period revealed his genius. However, there are numerous other explanation for his success e.g. weak opposition, his character. He was member of Tory political party and a role model, how a great prime minister should look like. After defeat in the American war of independence (1775-1783), Britain was in major financial crisis.
Account for the growth of liberal government in Europe during the period 1815-1914 At the beginning of the nineteenth-century, a war was on-going between liberals and those in aristocratic/monarchical rule. Liberalist movements at their heart contained 3 main elements; the belief in a constitutional and parliamentary government, a desire for the protection of private property in a free market, and the want for the separation of religious authority from political authority (Gould, 1998). Yet at that time, Europe was the complete opposite of the way liberals felt that it should be, with monarchs, aristocrats and clergy men predominantly in power, the poorer and middle class had barely little access to their rights, freedoms and few or no privileges. The French Revolution of 1789 began to change all of that, followed closely by the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848. All three Revolutions played significant part in what came to be a significantly liberalist Europe, including Industrialisation.
Reasons that back up source 4 are that Labour promised to sort out Britain’s economic problems. By the early 1960s there was a balance of payments deficit, high inflation and growing unemployment. The Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Selwyn Lloyd, attempted to deal with the problems by setting up a National Economic Development Council and National Incomes Commission but these failed. In 1962, therefore, Lloyd was replaced by Reginald Maudling. He was just as unsuccessful and by the time of the October election of 1964 Britain was in debt to the tune of £750 million.
France and Britain both wanted power in North America. They turned Ohio Valley into a war zone. In 1763, The British was acting like conquerors in Indian countries, “As the year begun, Indian peoples complained about the presence of British
French and Indian War DBQ The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended in 1763. The name “French and Indian War,” was one later adopted by the Americans and the British. Relations between Britain and its American colonies were substantially altered politically, ideologically, and economically in many ways. The relationship was altered politically due to Britain’s control of the entire eastern coastline, economically on how British policies after 1763 were designed to raise revenue to pay for the cost of the empire, and ideologically in the loyalty of the American colonists. From a political standpoint, the Americans and the British did not see eye-to-eye.
3. Read the following definitions for Tories and Whigs, the leading political parties of the day. William Pitt was prime minister of a majority Tory government but originally aligned himself with the Whigs. He was often referred to as a ‘new Tory’ but called himself an ‘independent whig’. What does this information tell you about Wilberforce’s audience?
Stubbornly, trying to help out and give power to monarch, he had replace the ministry sooooo fast! .he’s immature and unsure of himself. He selected a prime minister, George Grenville, Grenville believed that the colonies should be more tightly administered. Grenville then found a money problem. He found out that england’s debt has doubled in 10 years.
Revolutionary War (1775–83): Causes The roots of the Revolutionary War ran deep in the structure of the British empire, an entity transformed, like the British state itself, by the Anglo‐French wars of the eighteenth century. After the fourth of these conflicts, the Seven Years' (or French and Indian) War, the British government tried to reform the now greatly expanded empire. The American colonists resisted, creating a series of crises that culminated in the armed rebellion of 1775. The Imperial Background. With the Glorious Revolution (1688), England's foreign policy took the anti‐French path it followed until 1815—a path that led to four wars before 1775.
Chapter 4 Summary The War for Independence The Stirrings of Rebellion The heavy costs of the French & Indian War convinced the British government that additional revenues should be raised from the American colonists Parliament, persuaded by Prime Minister Grenville, passed the Stamp Act in 1765, the first tax levied directly on the colonists, on their goods and services (previous taxes had been duties, or tariffs, on imports) Special stamped paper was required for documents and paper items, including pamphlets and newspapers, affecting everyone Many colonists lost respect for British authority and anger rose against the King and Parliament The Sons of Liberty, an organization formed by Samuel Adams and others, harassed British officials and protested against the tax