India didn’t have the strength to build up their own civilization, so when the British came, they gave them aid in creating one. According to document 2, some positive affects for India during the imperialism were a British system of government. This was known as a “knife of sugar”. This means that the system was very smooth and had no oppression. The British introduced a parliamentary system of government to the Indians.
May-Lee Hoshi Modern World History 2B Bapi DBQ 17: Imperialism in India: An Evaluation European Imperialism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries converted areas of Africa and Asia into a colonial empire that had really benefited the British. The Imperialism in India allowed the British to improve socially and economically without any negative consequences, while India, the colony, made great strides, but paid the price through lack of independence and the inability to develop as an industrial state. Both the colony and colonizers had a different point of view on what was happening to the countries. The British, the colonizers, believed that they were doing the countries a favor by helping India. British had introduced to the colony many new manufactured goods, technology, education, means or transportation and most importantly, better and quicker ways of communication (Document 1).
Writer Alden Vaughn, who wrote a book New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675, which this book is really explicit toward the Puritans and Indians. He feels like one was unified, visionary, disciplined, and dynamic while the other was divided, self-satisfied, undisciplined, and static. Also saying that the Puritans and Indians couldn’t live side by side with no penetration of more fragmented and passive by the more consolidated and active. (202,13) From what Tompkin already knew she knew that what Vaughn was saying was not true. The vision that Vaughn was given to his readers it’s not like that anymore.
By the time it was 1763 most of the white colonies would say that they are loyal British subjects. However after 1763, mostly between the time periods 1775-76, these years saw the send of the relationship with Britain. The British should take some of this blame as they did introduce some rigorous polices after 1763. This was an unwanted change for the American Colonies, As Britain left them alone for so long but now are starting to change things. But there are other courses of the break out of the armed conflict not just polices of the British Government that are the colonies as not all of the polices where unreasonable.
That certain point was the Colonial Glass Ceiling. It only really existed for colonist and people in the British Empire that weren’t in England. The glass ceiling was one of the many causes of the American Revolution because the colonists wanted equal opportunities that the English people had. Salutary Neglect, or rather the end of it, was probably one of the main causes of the American Revolution. Salutary neglect in its self was an undocumented, though long-lasting, British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
Since he obeyed and enforced British law he was rewarded by the English government with higher titles (Hollitz 57). Adams on the other had opposed English rule, and how they were taxing the colonist without consent of the people (Hollitz 54). Adams said in “Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative” that the Acts the British Parliament laid upon the colonies were “restricting, and burdening and embarrassing our trade” (qtd in
He states they the Indians led a “freer life” than Europeans because they are guided by the light of nature, being void of care which torments the minds of so many Christians: they are not delighted in baubles, but in useful things. #7. 1. Hakluyt thinks the Indians will welcome English colonizers as bearers of liberty because he insisted empire and freedom went hand in hand. English settlements would help to rescue the New World and its inhabitants from the influence of Catholicism and tyranny.
Politically, the British introduced changes to India, such as saying that the Indians required to be civilized, and that British rule would remove Oriental despotism and anarchy and implement a reliable system of justice.Socially, when India was colonized, the English language quickly spread and the indigenous languages of the natives began to be wiped out.Economically, under colonial rule, India often depended on great Britain for such things as technological advances and manufactured goods. | 10. Siam, or today's Kingdom of Thailand, was the only country in Southeast Asia that remained independent of European control.The two African countries two remain independent of European control where Ethiopia and Liberia. | 11. The Europeans would still punish those that had already been brought into slavery.
American citizens and politicians alike began calling the conflict the “second war of independence.” The political standpoint of entering the war was to preserve the rights of sailors and would-be American immigrants from British impressments. The US also wanted to prove that big brother Britain could not tell them who they could and could not trade with anymore (meaning France). This was an easy pill for the American public to swallow because of continued tensions with Britain after the Revolution and the rise of the anti-Britain, Democratic-Republican Administration and
Revolutionary Americans resented the economic restrictions, finding them exploitative. They claimed the policy restricted colonial trade and industry and raised the cost of many consumer goods. In his 1774 pamphlet, "A Summary View of the Rights of British America, " Thomas Jefferson asserted the Navigation Acts had infringed upon the colonists' freedom in preventing the "exercise of free trade with all parts of the world, possessed by the American colonists, as of natural right." Yet, as O. M. Dickerson points out, it is difficult to find opposition to the mercantile system among the colonists when the measures were purely regulatory and did not levy a tax on them. The British mercantile system did after all allow for colonial monopoly over certain markets such as tobacco, and not only encouraged, but with its 1660 regulation was instrumental in, the development of colonial shipbuilding.