Enemy tribes were often forced to live together, which resulted in civil wars over the years. These wars, however, were not the only effects that European imperialism had on Africa. Some effects were great for the Europeans and Africans, but others only benefited the mother countries at the colonists’ expense. Document 1 clearly illustrates how the mother countries benefited at the expense of the
Clash of Cultures Katrina Jones HCS/110 University of Phoenix Clash of Cultures The Native Americans and Colonist had an advanced difference with a large amount of factors. However, with joining West Africans to the discovered world will provide additional great damage events to the three cultural groups at the time of the changeover. According to Tram, “The chronologic and historical event leads to what is known today as the Clash of Cultures” (2012). Colonist and the Native Americans interaction among one another was extreme from the second the Colonist placed their self into what they named Jamestown. The introduction of West Africans slavery relates to the complicated relationship among the two diverse groups who has traded their
The search for labor in southern states eventually led the states to do something they didn’t intend on doing. With the great demand for tobacco from states like Virginia and Maryland, and the large demand for sugar cane from the West Indies, the settlers were forced to turn to slave labor. They played a small role at first in the southern states, but eventually made up a large percentage of these areas populations. Georgia and North Carolina opposed slavery, but were unable to compete with the other states crop production. English settlers in Virginia and later Maryland around the Chesapeake Bay area discovered a crop from the Indians known as tobacco.
Furthermore in the Southern states of USA the abolition movement was resented. Plantation owners were unwilling to end slavery because it provided them with a free labour force. Many white Americans had justified slavery by thinking of slaves as racially inferior, as people without human needs, rights or dignity. The legal system had supported these racist views, and the rights of the plantation owners for many years. After 1890 many Southern governments passed a series of laws that set up a system of segregation that would last until the mid-twentieth century.
The movement away from the conservative fifties started in the early sixties and continued to change the culture of American life. Young people wanted change, which affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Rebellion and violence took part in this drastic change. People from different parts of the world had a great impact with this revolution. Although slavery limited the African Americans to live out their cultural traditions and other values, they managed to save it and over time, it was blended with European American culture.
So this was also a key factor in the expansion of the slave trade. The profitability of the slave trade was enormous for any job involved especially people like merchants, bankers and financiers who were very keen to invest in the development of plantations, purchase of slaves and in the building of ships to carry the slaves and goods since they made such huge profits on their original investment. But also the plantation owners who did not have to pay for the labour as the slaves obviously were forced to work with no pay could profit from this. Of course, the slaves, however, did not profit from this at all. At this time there was a need for a labour force to work the lucrative plantations and so this was the basis on which the slave trade was formed.
The reason that the African slaves were needed was because they were strong and good workers. The colonist had used the natives originally but they did not work as hard as they would have liked. The natives also had contracted small pox which took an enormous toll on them limiting the amount of slaves they had for labor. So they began trading and purchasing African slaves due to the fact that they had developed some immunity to these diseases. (McKay, Chap 21, pg 570) In order to get a good perspective on what being a slave was like, we will look into a narrative written by Olaudah Equiano.
They depended on slave labor for economic stability. Without the slaves many whites believed they were not able or should be doing the backbreaking labor. The plantation owners also needed the support of the slaves in all areas of their lives such as: cooks, housecleaners, nannies and chauffeurs. The possibility of life without the slaves was devastating. Slaves were the support system of their owners.
1999) Although Singer has a great amount of followers, there are people who disagree with his beliefs and moral reasoning. One argument that an individual might have with him is that we should focus on helping the people in our own country. We have poverty stricken and starving people here in America as well. Nobody is helping us, so we must help our neighbors in this country. Giving large sums of our personal profits to other countries will hurt us in the long run, it may be morally rewarding, but financially it is not.
Although at the time of the large influx of immigrants the farmers did experience a period of posterity because of the increased demand for food, the rural population opposed the immigrants because of their nativist views that the immigrants are ruining the American culture. These conflicts between “true Americans” and immigrants sparked social reform because they rural population depended on the cities as their seaports, and the urban population depended on the countryside because it was their main access to