Relationship Between EnglAnd’s Internal Problems And The Loss Of Its Colonial Empire In America

Relationship Between EnglAnd’s Internal Problems And The Loss Of Its Colonial Empire In America

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, England had seemed to establish a strong control over its colonial empire in the North America. The Americans mistakenly called the British as “Brothers” and thought that the British view the new nation as equal to theirs. In reality, Englishmen did not see anything else except a vast source of money and raw materials. This deception of the England’s king and parliament, combined with the rash taxation and fear of the national debt, has created a curtain of misunderstanding between the colonial empire and its motherland, finally leading to one of the most sensational events of the century, the American Revolution.
  After the death of his father, the ultimate responsibility of keeping the two empires together has come to George III. The 22 years old, inadequate and uneducated young man who hated every single action taken by his father, has decided to take a firm control over the government. First of all, he disbanded a long-ago established association called Whigs, because it had a strong voice in the parliament. Afterwards, he appointed a Scot who had no relations with the governors and was met with hostile views of the Whigs. The previously dominating association started to think that the king was trying to return to the times before the Glorious Revolution. At this point, the political trust of the English governors has broken into two parts, resulting in the atmosphere of confusion and corruption in the government. With a total chaos surrounding him, George III didn’t pay much attention to what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic and soon witnessed half of the empire slipping away from his hands.
However, it wasn’t only King’s fault that the colonial empire was lost. After the war, the views of the two countries’ governments had gone into completely different directions. Not many Englishmen who were sitting in the Parliament actually tried to understand their “brothers”. But the ones...