Identify and explain three factors (there are many) that helped the American colonies defeat the British in the Revolutionary War. Colonial forces were clearly outmatched by the British in sheer numbers‚ training‚ experience and equipment. Despite the clear advantage held by British forces‚ the American colonies managed to defeat them by making allies‚ using new innovative combat techniques‚ and by possessing the homefield advantage. A combination of all of these advantageous attributes allowed
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Despite what the British initially accomplished in aiding the colonies‚ Britain eventually became a government that the colonists were not content with. Acquainted with freedoms such as self-government‚ colonists were hesitant and resistant when the British imposed any act upon them that might threaten their freedoms. Just because the British were used to their ways of government operation‚ doesn’t mean that the colonists were willing to allow themselves to be subjected to the same treatment. For
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The decision of the British colonies to declare their Independence from Britain was long in the making and began to escalate directly after the end of the French and Indian War. After signing the Treaty of Paris‚ Britain was still facing the costly debt of the war and parliament made the decision that the colonists should help pay in the form of a number of taxes. This left the colonists feeling cheated as they failed to hold a single representative seat in Parliament and had no outlet to voice their
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has impacted the world through imperialism by its politics‚ economics‚ society‚ and the environment. Between the goods map and the graph was I see is the British have a higher profit than the Indians. The map has the British being small have not much to trade or give to other countries besides resources used for defensive machinery. The British have $8‚400 profit than India in which they have about $900 profits. Great Britain is smaller than any other country on the map. Britain only has iron‚ coal
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control the colonies. The American colonist thought of themselves as citizens of Great Britain. They were tied to Britain through trade and by the way that they were governed. The British restricted trade so the colonies had to rely on Britain for imported good and supplies. After the French and Indian War‚ the British wanted to control the expansion of the western territories. The Proclamation Act was created so that their would not settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were already
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The American Identity Audrey Montoya History 111 College of the Canyons Professor Gregory Shrout March 5‚ 2014 The American Identity The British influenced the unique American identity by American colonies wanting freedom for everyone and anyone. American colonies didn ’t want to acquire the English ways of kings‚ courts and bishops etc. Everyone being ranked from rich to poor meant people would not be treated equal and there wouldn ’t be true freedom for all. The American colonies
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Colonial period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious reasons. First‚ according to my textbook‚ the British originally sponsored trips over to the New World only after other countries were profiting from their collections of goods and new trade ports. Maybe other countries in Europe had begun settling the New World for religious concerns‚ but definitely not Britain. The British government was more concerned with staying up with other countries
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waging war against the British. It was their time to break away and to work for their own individual independence. They only really had one choice that would have worked and that choice was to fight a war against the British. Some of the justifications in wanting to fight this war can be found in documents such as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence and taxes such as the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense challenged the British government and the monarchy
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The British Imperialism had minimized a good percentage of local warfare‚ with having European military controlling the raids between tribes which had reduced. What good is all that‚ what is the whole fascination of the British Imperialism with Britain’s hunger? Africans had lost control of their land as well as their independence.The quarrel included many nations of Europe such as: France‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚Spain‚ Italy‚ and Portugal. British Imperialism actually had a good impact in Asia
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INTRODUCTION Since independence‚ West Africa states have maintained close political and economic ties with their former colonial powers. During the colonial era‚ the colonial administrators successfully imposed and impressed their alien pattern and orientation in the socio¬-political and economic affairs of West African countries. West African economic affairs were distorted to an extent that two decades after independence‚ all the countries are very much dependent economically on their former colonial
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