Ap European Imperialism

Between the years 1881 and 1914, African territory was being invaded by Europeans during the New Imperialism period. Before Europe’s invasion, Africa consisted of various tribes and had no central government due to this during the mid nineteenth century. Europe attempted to colonize Africa using harsh military force and resulted in the European Scramble for Africa. The European Scramble for Africa caused African leaders to have different reactions such as some wanting to have no conflicts, but peace, surrendering to the Europeans due to fear, and also attempting to fight back against the Europeans.

Between the period from 1880 to 1914, European powers went after overseas empires in Africa. The governments and political leaders of the European powers believed that this colonization of the African empires was necessary to maintain their global influence. A second group of people supposed that African colonization was the result of the greedy Capitalists who \only cared for new resources and markets. The third group of people claimed it to be their job to enlighten and educate the uncivilized people of Africa. Although the political leaders of European powers encouraged colonization of African empires to advance their nation’s global influence, others argued that it was only for the profiteering of the Capitalists who sought new

During the 1800s, many European countries sent explorers to colonize Africa. Many European missionaries and explorers went to Africa in an effort to help their countries to achieve power, pride, and money. The main driving forces behind the imperialism that helped Europeans attain power, pride, and money were technological forces, politics, and economics.

For the 300 years between 1500 and 1800,European nations traded for slaves,gold, and ivory along the west coast of africa, but they did not go deeply into the continent. In the 1880s Africa was under full assault as European nations competed with one another for control of the continent. The driving force behind European imperialism is power and they gain it by getting control and  resources of Africa and they justify it all by saying it was their duty as more civilised nations to make other nations as civilized as theirs.

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Nationalism is the ideology based on the foundation that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the selected nation is more important than other individual or group interests. There are many things that people are able to relate to and identify as being that can include; their culture, homeland, family, and/or religion. There is naturally a strong loyalty towards the place people were raised. However, that tends to bring enemies too because not everyone is born in the same place and it tends to bring competition on which place it better bringing rift to all around. Even though with all of the negatives that come with strong nationalism, I believe nationalism brings more good than bad in Europe, Japan, Russia, the United States.

Over the course of a century, nationalism spread throughout Europe. This new patriotic breakthrough changed the way Europeans looked at themselves. Rather than associating themselves with only a small area similar to their local town or area, like they did in the past, they are now beginning to associate themselves with their country as a whole. This trend escalated around 1830s, with states becoming unified with a common language, culture, and territory. Nationalism is important to modern day history because it is through this that many countries were formed and is also the reason for how the world is today. Without nationalism, monarchs could still not be treating people the way with respect, imperialism would not have happened at the scale

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, industrializing countries such as France and the United States began expanding their influence to places around the globe. People of many different backgrounds answered the idea of imperialism with both praise and criticism. Some works commended imperialism such as “Speech to the French National Assembly” by Jules Ferry and “The White Man's Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. Other sources reprimanded the process, including works such as Imperialism by J.A. Hobson and “Home Burdens of Uncle Sam” by Anna Manning Comfort. Each author articulates the variety of justifications within their pieces, exploring the repercussions of the aggressive influence of political and economic expansion across the globe. In doing so, it is apparent that there are many facets to how people in the early twentieth century approached the idea of imperialism.

European industry changed drastically in the nineteenth century with technological advances and political turmoil. The unification of new nations gave rise to new industrial leaders as well as new empires fighting over ruling land in Africa and Asia. These newer nations competed with older nations for worldwide economic and political influence. To compare how newer nation-states such as Germany rivaled with older countries like England, it is important to consider the degree of which politics, industry, and imperialism made each similar to or different from the other.

The issue of American imperialism and expansion has plagued its citizens for countless centuries. From the beginning, anti-imperialists argued that annexation was directly against what the United States was built on, yet those in support of imperialism believe that the spread of democracy and freedom is crucial to the development of new countries. The people of the late nineteenth century experienced the Spanish-American war, where Cuba was freed from the reign of another country while the Philippines were kept under the supervision of the United States government. With expansionist ideals becoming more common, the United States finally adopted an interactive stance on expansionism and the establishment of its presence all across the world due to its involvement with old Spanish colonies, especially the Philippines.

In the seventeenth century, Great Britain decided to establish thirteen colonies in what we know today as the United States. These settlements were found along the east coast of North America. The colonies were all influenced by European lifestyles, but every colony was unique in their way. The settlers of the colonies came to North America for different reasons. Some settlers arrived for economic, religious freedom, or just a new opportunity. Due to the abundance of resources in various geographical parts of North America, the advancement of the colonies was based on what was uniquely found in their region. However, by having different economic systems, the colonies began to disagree on the future of North America. These disagreements would lead to the American Revolutionary War, which changed political and social life in the colonies.

Imperialism refers to the establishment of dominant and exploitive relationships between a political entity, such as a nation or colony.

Independence from European imperialism and colonialism developed quite differently on different continents, despite many similarities. This is due, in part, to imperialism itself developing in different ways regarding the region and the occupying power. To demonstrate, this paper will examine imperialism and succeeding movements for independence in South American Brazil and in the Belgian Congo that eventually became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.

During the late 19th century, imperialism was a heavily relied upon on the concept by the United States in order to gain economic, military, and cultural resources. American imperialism was motivated by ideological interest and economic opportunities. The United States was a steadily growing country that needed supplies and resources that were not easily found in the US. The United States also used imperialism as a way to civilize other countries and as a way to expand their military thought the seas.

The Non-Western World’s identity was hurting due to the European’s imperialistic power and because the intruders were arrogant. The initial response of the African and Asian people was to try to drive them out. However, anti-foreign reactions were put down fiercely by the Europeans’ superior technology. Therefore, conquered people worked to preserve their own culture from westernization, while Ismail of Egypt felt that the West was superior and that Egyptians should reform. Asians and Africans were used to doing what they were told to do, but opponents of imperialism felt that they were being robbed of their dignity by their outside rulers. Civil liberty and political self-determination were marks of the Western world for those opposed foreign rule.