Singapore

The colony that I chose is Singapore and it is an island located Peninsular of Malaysia north of the equator. In 1819 an Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British port in Singapore. Singapore also was a centre of trade from India to China. During World War 2 Singapore was captured and controlled by the Japanese Empire, but when the war ended Singapore reverted back to British Control. The British benefited from Singapore in 2 main ways. The first was that it was a new port that was very good for trading with farther countries. The second is that it is a lot closer to China so it was a lot easier for the British to trade with China. In the 1955 Singapore started a partial self government although it wasn’t too successful at first. In 1959 the elections for the first legislated assembly were held. Later on the PAP leaders, people’s action party, wanted to join Singapore and Malaysia because they thought that the economic ties were too strong to for them to continue governing as separate nations, but of course this didn’t work. Some other facts that I learned about Singapore is that it has a pretty good amount of diversity of people including: Malay, Chinese, Indian, and even some European influences.