The British expanded for numerous reasons. However this resulted in positive and negative effects on the conquered lands. British Imperialism was caused by many reasons. They expanded throughout many lands mainly due to economic reasons. According to Documents 3a and 3b, the British created an empire so they could sell cotton and iron goods.
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, European imperialism radically changed the boundaries inside the continents of Africa and Asia incorporating them into their developing colonial empire. This was the same scenario for British imperialism in India. Over time, the colony and colonizer’s opinion on imperialism evolves, as both experience the downside and upside of colonialism. Britain, mother country of India, had benefitted very much from their colony and dramatically improved the quality of life in India. (doc1) (doc4) Through India, Britain was able to obtain tropical produce for their citizens.
I will be arguing that the achievement of the Attlee Government were remarkable. The sources which I’ll be using show the impact that the Attlee Government had on Britain. From my own knowledge and also the sources, I can show that the achievements of Attlee Government were remarkable as it helped the people of Britain live much better lives. On the contrary it can also show that the achievements weren’t remarkable as it had created many problems for the country. Source 4 is suggesting that since the Attlee government had come into power sorted out many problems in Britain.
DBQ 17 British imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in negative and positive effects on India and Britain itself. The British were positively affected by imperialism, while India was both positively and negatively affected by the imperialism. Indian natives had no say in government, and were pretty much ruled over, but were also positively affected, like adopting a parliamentary system of government. Britain was positively affected and gained mass amounts of natural resources and processed them, also known as mercantilism. There were many positive affects to Imperialism in India.
Taxation became an huge issue as British needed money to pay off their debts from the previous war so they passed the Sugar Act in 1764 and then the Stamp Act shortly afterwards. This taxed sugar, molasses, and paper goods which was a huge deal to the colonies that started getting them angry right away. The colonies first act of rebellion was the creation of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and came up with the idea to tar and feather tax collectors while threatening their life. Trade even became tougher as the British started putting tax on pretty much everything especially tea with the Tea Act in 1773. Was this a tax?
In British and India, they both wear uniforms and the subjects are similar as well. Another one would be India speaks British English instead of American English. As for the last one, I have no idea.Company was disbanded, replaced by direct British rule. 4. The effect of British rule on India was fall in economic conditions of Indian people, generating commercial problems, economic problems, lack in the growth of India and its development.
England had to be able to sustain their colonies so, The Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the Sugar Act law specifically aimed to raise colonial money for the English Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. The Currency Act regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America, the Act sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in low value colonial money. American colonists responded to the Sugar Act and the Currency Act with protest. In Massachusetts, participants met because the colonies were not represented in the House of Commons, where it emerged the “No Taxation without Representation” (Forner 143).
Not only did they westernized their education with modern sciences and modern life, but they also made a frame for the to establish laws and courts of justice (Document3). The British built a strong and efficient administration ran the government for the Indians, deciding that they would not be able to run their government properly, became a problem later for India. Imperialism may have been a positive force for India in many ways, but the economic gain benefitted
Roosevelt had a great impact on America by changing the relationship between the national government and the people changed drastically. The government took on a greater role in the everyday social and economic lives of the people. Theodore Roosevelt had a great effect on the great depression because he happened to be the right guy at a very bad time. Roosevelt had a plan called the New Deal to help America back on its feet. The New Deal programs of FDR created a liberal political alliance made up of labor unions, blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities, intellectuals, the poor, and some farmers.
In Howard Zinn’s, A Peoples History of The United States, Chapter 4 Tyranny is Tyranny; Zinn exposes the events that led to the American Revolution, which allowed for the process and sanction to break from Britain’s controls of Colonial America. The Chapter discusses how the colonial elite kept controls high and wealth heavily flowing within the upper class causing an uneven leveling within the colonies under Great Britain which did not change post-Independence. Zinn also describes how unrest started with the “common” person struggling to survive as England had increased the taxes post French and Indian War because firstly, Britain had to earn back the money they put into the war; and secondly, greed of continuously making enormous profits from the colonies. By 1770 the profit was worth 2,800,000 pounds. Zinn explains how this resulted in hardship for the colonies, and how locally the wealth was concentrated within the rich elite only, and that “The elements were there for conflict.” Howard Zinn quoted Gray Nash’s research of the early 1770s, where he examined court-recorded wills and found that the people with the most wealth in “the cities were leaving 20,000 pounds (equivalent to about $5 million today).” The poorest of poor’s people began to “vent their grievances” at town meetings.