The Indian Factor as an Ideological and Political Reason for the Struggle of the North American Colonies for Independence (Based on the Materials of the Privy Council Decisions)
https://doi.org/10.21686/2411-118X-2024-2-49-57
Abstract
The research is focused in the Indian factor’s influence on the development of revolutionary endeavors in the British colonies in North America. According to the author, this factor is one of the key reasons that led to the beginning of the struggle of the North American colonies for independence in 1775. In order to achieve this goal, the author analyzes the policy of the British Empire towards Native Americans. The analysis is based on the materials and decisions of the Privy Council in the pre-revolutionary period of 1745–1766. This source has not been thoroughly studied before, which determines the scientific novelty of the presented work. As a result of studying this source by using the induction method, the author comes to the following conclusion. The Crown’s geopolitical vision of the Indians contradicted the interests of the colonial population of agrarian America. In the XVIII century the metropolis saw the Indian tribes of North America as allies, and in some cases as its subjects. In the first case, such an attitude was part of the strategy in the imperial struggle with France, and in the second – part of the internal policy of the British Empire, which tried to maintain a balance of interests in one of its own colonies and prevent complications in relations between colonists and the indigenous peoples of the continent, which in most cases acquired the most tragic consequences and could require the metropolis a military solution. The need to overcome the veto on expansion in the western direction became one of the reasons for the beginning of the struggle of the North American colonies for independence.
About the Author
N. A. Fedorov
The Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate Student
6 Miklukho-Maklaya Str., Moscow, 117198
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Fedorov N.A. The Indian Factor as an Ideological and Political Reason for the Struggle of the North American Colonies for Independence (Based on the Materials of the Privy Council Decisions). ECONOMICS. LAW. SOCIETY. 2024;9(2):49-57. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2411-118X-2024-2-49-57
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