“England” is more correct than “United Kingdom” (that term wasn’t officially adopted until 1801), but “Great Britain” would be more correct still. England, Scotland and Wales were politically unified; it was a “united kingdom”, although it wasn’t yet the UK.
In some of the colonies, the main focus of discontent was not the Crown, but the Proprietors (the Pitts, for example) who imposed their own restrictions on colonial autonomy above those taxes and so on imposed by Parliament. One of the ideas that was floating around before complete American Independence became the agreed-upon goal was for British America to be granted an equal status as Scotland and Wales, providing its own representatives to Parliament but still under the sovereignty of the King (who by that point was a German anyway).
If this proposal (supported by Ben Franklin, notably but not solely) had found favor across the Atlantic in the 1760’s, then the events of the 1770’s might never have come to pass.
“England” is more correct than “United Kingdom” (that term wasn’t officially adopted until 1801), but “Great Britain” would be more correct still. England, Scotland and Wales were politically unified; it was a “united kingdom”, although it wasn’t yet the UK.
In some of the colonies, the main focus of discontent was not the Crown, but the Proprietors (the Pitts, for example) who imposed their own restrictions on colonial autonomy above those taxes and so on imposed by Parliament. One of the ideas that was floating around before complete American Independence became the agreed-upon goal was for British America to be granted an equal status as Scotland and Wales, providing its own representatives to Parliament but still under the sovereignty of the King (who by that point was a German anyway).
If this proposal (supported by Ben Franklin, notably but not solely) had found favor across the Atlantic in the 1760’s, then the events of the 1770’s might never have come to pass.