How Did Imperialism Affect Zimbabwe

Resources,they carry a country financially.A big driving force for imperialism at the time was resources,and Africa just so happened to have an abundance of them.Ranging from diamonds to slave labour ,Africa was a gold mine in the eyes of the Europeans.Proof of this is the

In the late 1800’s Europeans took over Africa, took their resources,enslaving the Africans, and changed the course of history. The Europeans took over Africa, which is called The Scramble For Africa, in 1884-1914. The Europeans took over because Africa was rich in raw materials, they wanted power, and they thought their culture was superior. The driving force behind imperialism was need for resources, political competition, and technological advances. One driving force behind imperialism was need for natural resources. Document E uses a bar graph to show imports and exports in 1854, and 1900 between Great Britain and South Saharan Africa. Great Britain made 3 million British pounds in 1854, and 21

Finally, there were slaves, and they had no rights whatsoever. These people were taken from their home country and forced into slavery. At first slaves were treated more like servants and could buy or earn their freedom. However, by the late 1600s African slavery was permanent. If a slave had a child, the child was born a slave too. Eventually there were laws to prevent them from getting an education, owning weapons and meeting in large groups. For them there was very little hope of social

History within Kenya truly started from 1885-1963 and that’s when imperialism started in Kenya. The British owned Kenya as a colony and slowly started enforcing laws that Kenya had never experienced before. The imperialism that took place in Kenya had a massive effect on the economy, political parties, and culture. All three of these, that were affected of imperialism, still show these effects today. Although Kenya has recovered from a huge past.

A social force such as Cecil Rhodes in document four, he convinced them that they were the best race the world has, “... the most human, most honourable race the world possesses.” He also says that they should take every opportunity of taking/gaining land, as well as stating that the Britons are the best race in the world and the more they acquire the better off the world is. With what he is saying he wants the people to believe what he believes, the imperialistic ways of this ending century and birth of a new. Although he does not care who he may harm while doing so in the future it happens. In document five, the arise of an old idea of “survival of the fittest” an evolutionary teaching/thought was justified by competition and brought by ruthlessness. With this document William L. Langer is showing a non-economic way of imperialism since he did not want to hide these other factors by economics at his time. This document shows that the evolutionary term “survival of the fittest” was used fairly often during the age of imperialism since it definitely was one against another. Document four shows the “survival of the fittest” to an extent because Cecil wants to take every opportunity that presents itself (to take territory) and if you are weak you are unable to defend against the British forces. In document six, Rudyard Kipling wrote that what the whites were doing was in the people of Africa's

African colonization obviously offered new wealth sources, such as markets and resources, to the European nations; however, many people doubted the ethicality of the act. In his speech in 1888, Joseph Chamberlain, British industrialist, politician and reformer, clearly argues that colonization is incredibly necessary to the British nation. He believes that the British Isles could not last for a single day without the natural markets for trade provided by the African colonies (Document 4). However, since he is an industrialist, Chamberlains goal is to increase his own wealth along with his countries, therefore, this argument could be distorted. Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist, easily revealed his thoughts on Imperialism when he said “Philanthropy is good, but philanthropy at 5 percent is even better” in a speech at the chartering of the British South Africa Company in 1889 (Document 5). William Clark disagreed with imperialist in a Progressive Review in 1879. His opinion was that the financers who hope to gain profit use Jameson, a “British military officer who led an

When Africans are transported to the new world, they were forced to convert to christianity. Some African americans became very religious, they would come together to practice their religion as shown in document D. Some African americans hated how they were being treated and what the white thought of them. In document E, it states “if we are lazy and idle, the enemies of

For religious purposes there was differentiation to African Americans going to church even if enslaved. African Americans had no rights according to whites, even if free. So, for them to go to church it was a big deal. For them to go to church there must have been a white pastor. He would preach and the people would listen. Enslaved African Americans were rare to go to church because of how they had to work on the farm or for the family after the people they work for came home from their church. Education war poor. They didn’t get to learn how to read. Free slaves could learn but it would not be as much as white students. The reasoning behind slaves not learning was their work on plantations and the owners would not pay for education for an African American. Now, some slaves could learn how to read and learn through

After the Spanish-American war in 1898, America attained much power. The defeat of Spain led the U.S. to the broadening their horizons through international expansion. Seeing how the U.S. rivals had already established overseas empires, the U.S. wanted to emulate. They jumped into action and produced a ‘foreign policy’ giving America the right to build empires in areas such as Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The american foreign policy of imperialism, exerting military, economic, or political control over weaker nations, was unjustified due to geographic greed for resources, unjustified subjugation, and cultural oppression through white washing.

Africans had their own religions, and some were Muslim and Catholic, but when they were brought to America they were forced to abandon their beliefs. Plantation owners separated families and members of the same tribes to make this possible. However, after the Great Awakenings African-Americans were permitted to worship and the messages gave them hope of equality. But in the Southern States this message was different, as slaves were taught to obey and serve their owners with appreciations. These false messages led to secret worship meeting which became the base of the Black Church

The life of the Africans was miserable. They were in the slavery system which they had been treated as products for selling in the market and tools for working. Moreover, they had no free will and free right to live. Their lives were under controlled by their masters and the British colonies. Even though everyone was created equal, and everyone has the right to pursue freedom, but the blacks were unable to receive any.

One of the main reasons masters did not want their slaves to become Christians involved the Bible. This was one reason why many plantation owners tried very hard to stop their slaves from becoming literate. If they learned to read it would become a threat to their religion. In the South, African American people were not normally allowed to go to church services. African American people in the North were actually allowed to attend church services. Drums, which were played in traditional religious ceremonies, where not allowed due to overseers scared that they would use them to encode messages.

Africa faced many serious negative consequences because of imperialism. The resolution of the All African People’s Conference held in Ghana in 1958 said, “...Whereas fundamental human rights… freedom to live a full and abundant life… are denied to Africans through the activities of the Imperialists,” (Document 3). This resolution said that human rights, which are rights entitled to all humans regardless of any difference, were taken away. Because of this, the Africans were made to feel inferior which is not healthy for people and can cause serious consequences like the Africans assimilating to the European culture instead of preserving their rich, diverse culture. Sekou Toure, an African nationalist, had similar ideas, he said, “Our continent possesses tremendous reserves of raw material… with its potential sources of power, give it excellent conditions for industrialization,” (Document 2). So as well as the Africans being stripped of their basic rights

Long before their contact with whites, Africans were a strongly religious, and deeply spiritual people. During the early history of slavery, the African American spirituality was often seen by whites as a pagan faith. These rituals and dogmas were seen by whites as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Witchcraft, and superstitions. They often commented on these "pagan practices," and fetishes, and were threatened by them. As a result, great effort was put on eradicating these practices, and many were lost within a generation.# Although tremendous efforts was placed on eradicating the “superstitious” religious beliefs of the African slaves, they were not immediately introduced to the religion of white slave masters, Christianity. Many planters resisted the idea of converting slaves to Christianity out of a fear that baptism would change a slave's legal status. The black population was generally untouched by Christianity until the religious revivals of the 1730s and 1740s. The Bible was manipulated to support the institution of slavery and its inhumane practices. Christianity was used to suppress and conform slaves. Slaveholders, priests, and those tied to the Church undermined the beliefs of the millions of African-Americans converts.# White Christianity was used to justify the enslavement of blacks. By the early nineteenth century, slaveholders had adopted the view that Christianity would make slaves more submissive and orderly.

Some of the laws that were created made it hard for Africans to enjoy the railroads.