British imperialism was the British setting out and building nations in foreign lands. Of these lands Africa and India were one of the most important and economically beneficial to the British. They did this because these regions had many raw materials of value to the British and they believed they were superior. The British would often refer to these conquests as the “white man’s burden” because the people were seen as savages they were bettering. The social, political, and economic consequences brought on weren’t always the best.
Imperialism was a very important time period that occurred from the 1850s to 1914. Imperialism meant “one country’s domination of the political, economic, and social life of another country.” There were many factors that fueled imperialism, which had three different forms. Imperialism affected Africa, Asia and South America. Imperialism had two main motivations, economics and the desire for new markets. Economics was a big cause of this because western industrialists had wanted new markets for their manufactured goods; these people also had some type of competition going on with other countries.
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, European imperialism radically changed the boundaries inside the continents of Africa and Asia incorporating them into their developing colonial empire. This was the same scenario for British imperialism in India. Over time, the colony and colonizer’s opinion on imperialism evolves, as both experience the downside and upside of colonialism. Britain, mother country of India, had benefitted very much from their colony and dramatically improved the quality of life in India. (doc1) (doc4) Through India, Britain was able to obtain tropical produce for their citizens.
In the 19th centurie European imperialism Forced its countries to split up the rest of the world each country Getting small parts of it. because of its large amounts of resources. Africa was one of the areas in which European nations made colonies. Imperialism in Africa had both positive and negative results not only for the Africans in the colonies but the European colonizers also Some positive effects on Africans were that they were provided with security and new technology. Some negative effects were the Africans lost their freedom and slavery.
The effect of British rule on India was fall in economic conditions of Indian people, generating commercial problems, economic problems, lack in the growth of India and its development. Their rule resulted into poor conditions of the agriculture and farmers, exploiting Indian market for their own benefit and killing the domestic home made industries. 5. Indians differed from British Settlers in the fact that they were nomads while the British people believed in setting up cities. 6.
DBQ 17 British imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in negative and positive effects on India and Britain itself. The British were positively affected by imperialism, while India was both positively and negatively affected by the imperialism. Indian natives had no say in government, and were pretty much ruled over, but were also positively affected, like adopting a parliamentary system of government. Britain was positively affected and gained mass amounts of natural resources and processed them, also known as mercantilism. There were many positive affects to Imperialism in India.
With the extra increase in slaves, they had the choice of using the extra labor force or selling slaves to other land owners. 13 As America began to grow, profits became the main drive for slavery. Europeans noticed that America was a goldmine, filled with sugar and cotton, thus causing many Europeans to move. In order to maximize profits, you needed labor. Slavery was the
The way in which people elected their leaders and representatives would change for good and create a pave way for the way in which we choose our own officials today. These are some of the few ways in which Bacon’s Rebellion has been a significant event in the history of America. One of the most important outcomes that resulted from the actions of Bacon’s Rebellion is the deterioration of the indentured servitude labor and the greater emergence of slave labor, especially from the African countries. One of the important aspect of Bacon’s Rebellion was the bad treatment of white indentured servants. The owners of these servants treated them as if they were not of “white color,” which meant that they were treated the same as African slaves.
African Imperialism During the late 19th and 20th century, the Europeans such as the Britain’s were trying to take over more land from the Africans to expand their borders. In doing so they also grew its economy and cultures. Since Africa wasn’t modernized or politically secure at the time it was much easier for Europe to take over their land. This made it possible for the Europeans to be able to produce crops. Then soon enough different nations from Europe started to take over most of Africa.
As wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the ability for investment at home is reduced resulting in foreign investments and exploit weaker nations. As time passed however, both Hobson's and Lenin's fears were proved groundless. The Europeans invested more in the new world nations and that many of their colonies were fundamentally economically useless. However, in a few cases there were some economic advantages to some of the colonies. The British got gold, copper, and rare minerals from South Africa.