The differences and similarities in the economic and political contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced

The similarities in the political contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced are, they were also ruled by Britain, and they both had laws, and they have the head of the government.

The similarities in the political contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced are, they were also ruled by Britain, and they both had laws, and they have the head of the government.

The differences in the political contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced are, British appointed Britain to manage the 13 colonies. But British appointed Chinese to manage Hong Kong colony.

Also, the name of the branches of the government is different. For example, the legislature of the 13 colonies is called "Congress", and for Hong Kong, the legislature is called The Legislative Council. There are some changes you can find on here. Besides that, after the 13 won the revolution, they had their own republic. But Hong Kong colony hadn't her republic; even they didn't fight to them.

The 13 colonies were discontented by the constitution of British. They didn't want to have this law; they wanted to have freedom, so they fought to Britain.
Contrarily, Hong Kong people have less disaffection to the law. There was more peaceful than the 13 colonies.


The similarities in the economic contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced are they were ruled by the governors. They needed to obey the governors.

The differences in the economic contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced are, the trade in Hong Kong had more freedom than the 13 colonies, because the 13 colonies were disobedient to the governor. So the governor used laws to control them, like "dogs".