The Scottish vote to succeed from the United Kingdom got me thinking about U.S. history
If there was a nation wide vote in 1775 for the U.S. Colonies to leave Great Britian, what would the outcome of been? My guess is they would of voted no.
The Scottish vote to succeed from the United Kingdom got me thinking about U.S. history
If there was a nation wide vote in 1775 for the U.S. Colonies to leave Great Britian, what would the outcome of been? My guess is they would of voted no.
It's easier to vote your way to independence than to have to wage a war against crazy odds versus the strongest power in the world. No? Of course incidental events and a narrowing funnel of choices escalated armed conflict to point of no return. But the moderate process of today's UK is not a good contrast to most of the history of the British empires relationship w her subjects/subjugates... Ireland, Scotland (medieval), am colonies, w indies, India, Africa, Palestine, China...
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The Scottish vote to succeed from the United Kingdom got me thinking about U.S. history
If there was a nation wide vote in 1775 for the U.S. Colonies to leave Great Britian, what would the outcome of been? My guess is they would of voted no.
You may be correct.
It would definitely had been a closer vote than most Americans think.
In actual fact, the British colonies of North America at that time were the lightest taxed, most liberally governed (in the classical small government sense), freest, most prosperous, and most equitable portions of the eighteenth century world.
And our George III would have never dared taken the liberties with you colonists that your current administration does.
Why on earth would one have voted for independence?
well, who knows what opinions would have been if the infrastructure were in place for a nation wide vote. I don't really remember enough from history class to venture a guess.
But in response mostly to the subject line...
Scotland doesn't dehumanize African Americans and Native Americans like our founding fathers.
Who gets to vote in this hypothetical?
Just white property-owning males, correct?
My guess is they would have voted for independence. The elites among the colonies were pretty well in favor of independence via war so one would assume they would have been even more behind a peaceful independence.
Also, communication from England was really slow so the pro-independence colonists would have had a major leg up in the propaganda campaign. That were some serious pamphleteers among the Founding Fathers and if they could convince the average colonist to pick up a gun and risk their life marching through Valley Forge and what not, then checking a box marked YES on a ballot would have been child's play.
The Pro-England colonists would have had to defer back to King George and that would have bogged them down. Plus England was distracted by the French at that point in time. In this hypothetical, we are assuming that England would allow the Americans independence based on a vote, so clearly it couldn't have been that important of an issue to them.
New England would have gone heavy for breaking away. Southern plantation owners were cool with the status quo and more loyal to the crown.
The problem was the British stupidly created a power vacuum by abolishing the colonial governments, so that the revolutionary factions became de facto governments and were free to do whatever they wanted in the name of the people.
Even when the Continental Congresses started, the radicals weren't in control and they tried to negotiate with the British. Only the start of the war drove them to declare independence.
If William Wallace had risen from the dead and led a daring raid on a BBC station, then 99% of the Scots would have voted yes, because then it would have been war.
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