While many people in England believe that the Scottish are beneficial to their union. The Scottish people believe that their way of life and culture is at risk of becoming an English one, and for the reason, many Scots want independence. This is a good thing because it will be the first time in a very long time that the Scottish people will have a voice of their own, and choose their own fate as a nation.
First off, we will start with how and why Scotland joined with the English to form the United Kingdom, and the Darien Venture and why it put Scotland in near-collapse and total economic devastation. Second, we will discuss why both sides agreed to the Acts of Union 1706-1707. Third, we will go over the English and Scottish perspectives of this Union, and finally, the modern controversy surrounding a sudden increase in a desire for independence from the English by the Scottish.
A long time ago back in the 1690’s there were but only two kingdoms on the island of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. England, as well as the other great European nations of time were doing rather well for themselves by rapidly expanding their empires through the use colonialism. Scotland did not have an empire but wanted to join in the franchise and thus needed to establish a colony of their very own, so Scotland decided to place a colony in Panama. They figured that the colony’s strategic location would make trade with the people of the far-east and the rest of the world safer, faster and more efficient by eliminating the very long trip around the incredibly hazardous Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope, where wind and wave would tragically smash their ships against rock and ice alike. Scotland needed investors to lend some m...
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