Britian Control in Canada and India

In 1619 the first outpost in India was made. The British were in India because it was close to Asia. In order to keep that good location and establish permanent trading the East India Company was created. In 1707 when the Mughal Empire collapsed the East India Trading Company took over India's economy. India became Britain's primary center of trades with Asia and their control spread to most of present day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. In addition to the close trading with Asia the Indian population provided a massive buying market. Britain’s power and influence grew so much that in 1858 Queen Victoria declared India part of the British Empire. Britain would use the Indians to fight their wars for them. The British stopped all Indians from manufacturing their own goods. This forced the people to buy the goods that Britain presented and they took advantage of that by selling their poor goods that no one else would buy. India’s spices were taken over and tea the most British drink was first cultivated by the British in India. It wasn’t until August 14 1947 that India gained independence from Britain.

Adventurers came across the Atlantic Ocean looking for a shorter route to Asia. Instead they found the new world. North America had huge amounts of fish that Europe came to harvest. The land had fresh resource of animals for fur. Beaver felt just so happened to be in high demand for top hats. The Britain it was a whole new supply of resources. In Canada the Natives were the people affected. Diseases were brought with the Europeans and the Aboriginals were not immune like Britain. Between 1780 and 1782 and later in 1837 a small pox outbreak devastated many plains natives. The introduction to alcohol was sometimes used to take advantage of the natives when trading because the natives were not fully aware of alcohols affects and there decisions were impaired. Unfortunately like India, Britain also had the natives fight their wars. Tribes with Britain were told to fight tribes that had alliances with France.

Today Canada still has huge ties to Britain. The ruler of England is shown on our currency. Queen Elizabeth is head of the Commonwealth because she was invited to the first one by Pierre Trudeau, a Canadian Prime Minister. The Queen’s title in Canada is Queen of Canada and she plays a role in many ceremonies and is the symbol of our sovereign. The Queen however abides by the decisions of Canada’s government. Britain, Canada, and India all use Prime Minister as the title for their leader. Today Britain and India are on good terms largely to the state that India’s independence came. Thanks to Gandhi, who studied law in London, it was peaceful. Instead of fighting violently with Britain he encouraged things like boycotting British products. Britain would lose their economic gain from India and India would rely on their own resources and increase the spending at their own businesses. Gandhi shows up on much of India’s currency.