“I am astonished to see how markedly our world is changing. A new world is being created, the old world destroyed. The very jungle becomes a settled district…” This impression of early colonial Singapore was written in the autobiography of Abdullah bin Kadir, who was regarded as a perceptive observer of the life in his day. The change from being “the very jungle” to “a settled district” best describes the development of Singapore in the early colonial time. After long being the “sleepy fishing villages” since the late seventeenth century, Singapore “woke up” and rapidly developed into one of Asia’s greatest port cities after the British arrived on the scene. While socialists and historians are studying the varied reasons for the fast transformation …show more content…
C. Mary Turnbull once has pointed out: "Singapore was fortunate in her three early pioneer administrators: Raffles, a man of extraordinary vision, but for whom Singapore would never have existed; Farquhar, who by his energy, good sense and courage, nursed the infant settlement through its first dangerous years; and Crawfurd, shrewd and sensible, with his feet planted firmly on the ground, who converted into reality Raffles' most practical dreams" . It is a good summing up of Singapore’s three pioneers and leads us to see that it is the joint efforts of families of Raffles, Farquhar and Crawfurd contributing most significantly to the colonial Singapore’s success in terms of the following …show more content…
Therefore, it all thanks to Raffles’ strategic vision that made him select Singapore to be the suitable location realizing British economic and political ambition in the region. One can hardly imagine how Singapore would have been without the family of Raffles. Dr. Ernest Chew described it as “a sparsely inhabited island, on the margins of the Dutch colonial empire in the East Indies” Argument 2: order and law of British system Raffles developed a local regulation organization to ensure the peace and order for the newborn settlement. Members were chosen from British inhabitants to act under the representatives of the British Government. This regulation resulted in the abandon and control of gambling, slavery and cock-fighting and made pawnbrokers subject to licensing regulation. Further, John Crawfurd signed a second treaty with Sultan and Temenggong on 7 June 1823, which extended British possession to most of the island. Moreover, they also traded most of their administrative rights, including port taxes collection of
Foreign ships were prohibited from trading in the English colonies, thereby preventing Virginians from continuing their profitable trade with the Dutch. Virginia’s principal crop stood in danger of additional taxation because of the Crown’s urgent need for revenue, and because the English at home were incorrigibly reluctant to pay the true cost of maintaining their government.6
With the help of cheap-slave workers, Southern plantations made their profit-margin greater. Exporting goods to Great Britain. Such as, cotton and tobacco. This was worthwhile, profitable for the Southern, “aristocrats”. The British thought of a plan to mess up the trade due to the fact that they were holding a large amount of British wealth.
In order to get contraband past the Britain the merchants disguised their ships with flags of truce(Truxes 87-104), used legal goods as covers
The colonist were forced to buy british goods,and that’s how and why the colonist started smuggling goods. 1764 of the sugar act britian started lowering the prices of molasses and sugar from being six-pence to three pence.
Navigation Laws and Salutary Neglect This is connected to grievance 16. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed to regulate trade and enable taxation in the colonies. They restricted colonial trade with countries other than Great Britain.
The Embargo Act of 1807 was causing to stop ships from leaving American
“For if our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern & tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with
The British men gathered full control of the trading center present in the Americas, and created the Navigation Acts to help aid them in their tactics to take control over all trade within the Americas. The Navigation Acts were passed under a mercantilist system, and was used to regulate trade in a way that only benefitted the British economy. These acts restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships, required certain colonial goods to pass through England before export, provided subsidies for the production of certain raw goods in the colonies, and banned colonial competition in large-scale manufacturing. This lowered the competition in the trading world for the British and caused the British to have a major surge in power, that greatly attributed to the growth of their rising empire. The British’s ambitious motives in the trading world help portray a way that the British took control of an important piece in the economy of all of the other nations present in the colonies in the time period, and shows another leading factor in the growth of the British empire.
The Navigation Act are acts of limiting trade by using mercantilism beyond colonists. The colonists couldn’t trade certain items such as, sugar and cotton, with
I would have preferred British Middle colonies to live. First of all, the middle colonies were the most diverse ethnically and culturally. This colony is full of different kind of religion, which helps us to know about religious and traditional importance of many religions. There were many religious tolerant. Another thing I like farming so the land in the middle colonies was very fertile where we can grow many types of crops and food so that I don 't have to pay money for fruits, vegetables and food.
One way was through imposing trade regulations which was a more indirect approach. A large amount of Great Britain’s welfare is greatly associated with its transoceanic trade. It had the right to regulate such trade through duties on imports and exports. The second way they gained money was through direct taxation of the colonies which was considered unethical and illegal.
Initially, it needed to assemble its own military and administrative departments for the company’s encounters with the foreign competitors which was established in the lately eighteenth century. In the history of this company, its name was known as “Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies” when the company was the enterprise of London businessman. In this period of time the government-controlled policy-making body with the act of regulating made some decisions with the shareholders’ meetings, but after The British Government took away the Company’s monopoly in 1813. (Dean Paul, 2009). There were many acts in this company that shows the regulation process of the parliament.
Legal tolls were placed on vessels carrying tobacco goods as a form of tax, but some officials like Captain Crofts placed illegal tolls on vessels to make extra money. “It was the force of government that enabled the royal treasury to collect a legal toll and officers like Captain Crofts an illegal toll on tobacco trade” (Morgan 204). The corrupt royal navy officers and Virginians serving in colonial government exploited their authority and found ways to make easy money from the tobacco trade. The corrupt officials imposed illegal taxes, which not only affected plant owners but also the farmers and other lower class citizens involved in the tobacco trade. This shows that people during the colonial times were greedy and exploiting each other for money that came from the tobacco market.
A multilateral system of trade took place between Great Britain, West Africa, and the West Indies. Even though some African rulers fought
Through Jay’s Treaty England gave America the “most favored nation” status, which meant that American merchants got a break on taxes on imported goods; “.. they shall pay no other higher duties or charges on the importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels…(Phillips 146)” By having reduced trading costs Americans were able gain benefit because