Before one can define the impact of the three Atlantic Revolutions on Africa, one must look back to the prior decade before the American Revolution and discuss what led to it. History provides significant indicators that future wars and oppression of a vulnerable people often lead to nationalism and democracy in the 19th Century and beyond. Through European monarchs would lose much of its territories throughout the world, starting in the 18th Century. England would control the world’s gateways to trade, which would in turn led her to a dominate and peaceful Victorian age. One must study the seeds of the Revolution of 1763, The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution to properly answer their impact.
The year 1763 A.D. brought an end to the tumultuous World War between great European monarchs. The aftermath of this seven year war became the dominate theme of 1763. A world war is “a war engaged in by all or most of the principal nations of the world.” (Merriam-Webster, 2006). The seven year war involved Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal of Europe, which were the dominant world powers over land and sea. The conflict between neighbors would spread all over the world to four of the five remaining inhabited continents.
Many other governments joined this global conflict to include Prussia, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Hanover, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Iroquois Confederacy, Hesse-Kassel, Schaumburg-Lippe, and Bengal Subah. This lengthy list of participants does not include the indigenous population of the Americas or the colonist who were well on their way “to form a more perfect union.” The birth of a new nation is at hand in 1763 while the Crown crafts legislative scrolls to control its rebe...
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...ation in Africa was just another form of absolutism and the indication from world history, especially the Atlantic Revolutions should have warned them that blacks would rise and possess their freedom on the continent of Africa. The revolutions of the West freed only blacks outside the continent of Africa. Africa was put in a physical vice under white rule up until the 1990s. The end of Apartheid is not the end of the march for freedom. Africa still needs to be freed economically, that she may control her own destiny, as well as cultivate her own future.
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The beginning of 1763 marked one of the major events that would contribute to the end of British colonial relations. On February 3, 1763 the French and Indian War finally ended in British victory, but while the British celebrated the French’s defeat, colonists feared the oncoming reverberations the war would have on them. The main motive behind the war was for possession over the French fur trade territory in North America. To the colonists, the war was being fought by and for Britain not the colonies. The benefits of the victory only pertained to Britain. The after effect of the war for the colonies was the trampling on their need for expansion. During the war, Native Americans had fought with the French because of how well they treated them. Britain was notorious for abusing the Native Americans, therefore once the French were defeated; they began attacking western settlements of colonists. To avoid confrontation, the Proclamation of 1763 was passed by Parliament. The Proclamation established a limit to the greatly needed colonial expansion. Specifically, the Proclamation forbid settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The passing of the Proclamation of 1763 infuriated colonists ...
Colin G. Calloway’s The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America is a well researched, effective, and a creative story of North America during the year 1763. Calloway narrates his way through the year 1763 and talks about the effects on American History as a result of the Treaty of Paris 1763. The story illuminates the themes of racism, gender, and republicanism. Calloway has interesting techniques to approach important topics to show the topics significance. His book is very well researched and he cites a lot of different reliable sources to help make understanding the time period easier.
The Seven Years War originally dealt with real estate and advantages in the Ohio Valley, however, it became a national war that relied on the Native Americans. The interactions that were held between powers resided based upon the interactions each had with the Natives in their region. During the beginning of the war, different powers were able to lure Native support by using goods and protection. This eventually faded off as the Native Americans sided with the French, and brutalities began occurring amongst the tribes as well. The relations held during the war with the Native American groups shaped the course of the war as well as the course after the war. The Native Americans were undoubtedly the most influential group in the Seven Years War, and the interactions held with them directly affected each world power during and after.
The Seven Years War was best known to those in American history as the French and Indian war. In reality, the war was much larger in scope and devastation in relation to the simple name given to it. Lasting from 1756-1763, the Seven Years War involved much of the imperial powers of that time: Prussia, England, and Portugal on one side with France, Spain, and Austria on the other. Spurred by competition for land and territory, the war implicated the two world powers, Britain and France, in a fateful battle for dominance. The period also saw the rise of important figures such as George Washington and Benedict Arnold that would later be instrumental in the American Revolution. Yet the significance of this war was that it set up the stage for events like the French and American Revolutions, and rearranged a new world order of imperialism.
Europe, in the late 1800’s, was starting a land grab on the African continent. Around 1878, most of Africa was unexplored, but by 1914, most of Africa, with the lucky exception of Liberia and Ethiopia, was carved up between European powers. There were countless motivations that spurred the European powers to carve Africa, like economic, political, and socio–cultural, and there were countless attitudes towards this expansion into Africa, some of approval and some of condemnation. Europe in this period was a world of competing countries. Britain had a global empire to lead, France had competition with Britain for wealth and so did other nations like Germany and Russia.
The Seven Years War, or sometimes referred to as the French and Indian war, took place in the year 1754 and finally came to a conclusion in 1763, just prior to the American Revolution. The French and Indian war is often a war that’s importance is overlooked throughout the history of America. The French and Indian war set the stage for the George Washington to become the most important American figure in history. The events and battles of the Seven Years War would lead the colonist to helping the British defeat the French and their counterparts, the Native Americans. What took place during the Seven Years War would affect the colonist forever. The war would ultimately change the focus and mindset of the colonist. The colonist would begin to develop a mindset of power and independence, and finally break free from British rule, and into an American Revolution.
The French and Indian war also known as the Seven Years war lasted from 1754 to 1763. The French and Indian war altered relations between the British and American colonies through political, economical and ideological aspects. The war was fought between the English and the American colonists in what was called the New World.The war that raged in North America through the late 1750's and early 1760's was but one part of the larger struggle between England and France for dominance in world trade and naval power. The British victory in that struggle, known in Europe as the Seven Years' War , ended the long struggle among the three principal powers in northeastern North America: The English, the French, and the Iroquois Confederacy, it confirmed England's commercial supremacy and cemented its control of the settled regions of North America.
The Age of Revolutions was a period of time in which many global revolutions took place, especially within America and Europe. A revolution is an overthrow of government or social order in favour of political change. There were many revolutions that took place between 1760 and 1840, most notable being the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, and the French Revolution beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799. These, along with the Napoleonic Empire, which carried on from the French Revolution and lasted until 1815; all greatly transformed the Atlantic world. This occurred through these global revolutions, which inspired another revolution within the slave island of Haiti. The focus of this essay will be on the aforementioned revolutions,
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