Although a blight affected the potato crops of Ireland during the 1840’s‚ the mass starvation was the result of British governmental policy‚ that forced many Irish to immigrate to America. Their immigration had many positive and negative effects on the American people and the economy. Ireland was a country of poverty and nearly half of the families in rural areas were living in mud houses with no windows or furniture. According to the Constitutional Rights Foundation‚ Ireland was not an industrialized
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Continental Congress‚ to write the Declaration of Independence. The colonies decided to write the Declaration to formally separate and gain independence from Great Britain. They no longer wanted to be controlled by the British. They wanted to declare freedom from all foreign nations‚ and develop their own government. The Declaration of Independence is written out of the want and longing of the colonists to separate from Great Britain. In the first paragraph of the declaration it mentions the “decent respect
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RELATED INTRODUCTION BRIEFLY AND THE THEMATIC MEANING TO ONLY UNDERSTAND THE POEM--‘Caedmon’s hymn’ ORIENTATIONS BRITAIN‚ ENGLAND AND ENGLISH “The cliffs of England stand Glimmering and vast‚ out in the tranquil bay.” Matthew Arnold‚ ‘Dover Beach’ (c.1851) The cliffs at Dover were often the first of Britain seen by early incomers and have become a familiar symbol of England‚ and of the fact that England is on an island. These cliffs are part of what the Romans‚ perhaps from as early as the 2nd
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British Foreign Policy pre WW1 • At turn century Britain’s predominant position in the world was being challenged by: a. German‚ Japanese & American industrial & commercial competition threatening Imperial trade. b. French & Russian Imperial threats (with Japan growing) to territory eg Egypt‚ S. Africa‚ Persia‚ Far East & India. c. Nationalist ‘stirrings’ in Ireland‚ S. Africa‚ India d. The Boer War of 1890’s had shaken the Br belief that they held power over the world. The alliance
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The French and Indian War put the British crown in debt. In order to increase revenues for the costs of defending the expanding British Empire‚ Britain taxed the colonies. It imposed the Sugar Act in 1764‚ and‚ one year later‚ it added the Stamp Act. Colonists protested the added taxes. The Stamp Act was repealed. Britain and France engaged in the French and Indian war. They were batting for land in North America. After British won the war‚ they gain possession of France. In another effort to raise
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Why were the American colonies unhappy with the British government? By the 1770’s‚ Great Britain had established a number of colonies in North America. The American colonists thought of themselves as citizens of Great Britain and subjects of King George III. They were tied to Britain through trade and by the way they were governed. Trade was restricted so the colonies had to rely on Britain for imported goods and supplies. There were no banks and very little money‚ so colonists used barter
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A staggering war debt influenced many British policies after the Seven Years War. Many colonists who came here in pursuit of freedom were outraged at the attempts by British Parliament to enforce tax laws to benefit the British and the monarchy‚ John Stockton‚ a23 year old glassblower‚ living in New York‚ and member of the New York Sons of Liberty‚ was one of those angry colonists in 1768. The conceptualization of this freedom would compel him and other Patriot‚ artisans‚ to continue to fight for
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paper clarifies the veritable meaning of British Creole since it is not only a Creole but an ethnolect of the Black British community‚ whereas some people may say that it is a vernacular of British English. The linguist Peter L. Patrick claims that British Creole is the product of contact between the Creole language varieties of migrants from the Caribbean‚ and vernacular varieties of Urban English English. (Peter L. Patrick 2003: 231) So one could say that British Creole is a compounded variety of the
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try to explain the British Colonies in America to an English citizen. I will emphasize the differences and the similarities of the northern‚ middle‚ and southern colonies. I am going to emphasize this by explaining the topics of origin‚ religion‚ government‚ economics‚ labor‚ and social life of the colonies. I will also explain how the differences and similarities of the colonies effected the relationship between New England and the Revolution and how the French and Indian war effected the colonies
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History November 18‚ 2013 Declaration of Independence Analysis 1. What power do all men have according to the beginning of the Declaration of Independence? According to the Declaration of Independence all men have the right to state the problems and reasons that they are going to separate from Britain. Laws of Nature and of Nature’s god entitle them means give us at least a little bit of respect so we can share our opinion how how the British rule is impacting us. The colonies
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