Imperialism essay
Imperialism is when a stronger country takes over the weaker countries for reasons such as for political, social or economic. Imperialism has been a major form in shaping the modern world. The effects of imperialism have been interpreted by many different views. The major imperialism occurred during the late 19th century and early 20th century, and had more negative effects in the modern world than the positive.
One of its positive side is seen in document 4, where we can see that they were part of a modern culture and the colonial owners were responsible for providing security for a person and his or her land. They were also responsible for the opening of region to the lumberman, miner, and planter to the colony. After this occurred, they were considered part of a modern day culture.
A negative effect is seen in document one where it says the white rulers live at the expense of the natives. Took their territory by force, and the most fertile land and minerals re owned by the whites. In this document you can see that the colonies did he work while the white man sat and watched. They had no freedom and had to sit in the mother country and work. Another negative effect is seen in document 2 when it said “civilization was nothing less than savagery”.in this quote you can see that the colonists make themselves superior to the blacks indicating that whatever the blacked do for civilization is savagery and that brought down their self-confidence. In document 3 we see that the Africans are stripped of any type of freedom, and countries were brought down to poverty.in document 5 yu can see that when the whites came down to African, they had nothing but Bible and power over them, no lands but instead they took the lands of the African and forced religion Christianity on them.. in document 6, it talk about how the white man came and killed the innocent,