Dbq Imperialism

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Imperialism is the complete dominance over one country, by another. Imperialism was mainly caused because of people’s want to be the best economically and nationalistically. The imperialist powers wanted to have the best resources, most amount of money, best businesses, army, and overall the best country.
Racism was also a huge part of imperialism. Imperialist nations, who were very well white dominated, thought that they were so much better than the black dominated countries so they would just take them over because to the whites, blacks were a lower race. Especially in document two, the Prime Minister of France said in his speech to the Chamber of Deputies, “We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races… …show more content…

In the Resolution of the German Social Democratic Party Congress it was said, “...colonial policy is pursued for the purpose of capitalist exploitation… new opportunities to invest its ever- increasing capital...and to the desire for new markets which each country tries to usurp to itself.” The bourgeoisies, of the imperialist nations would take over other weaker nations just to bring businesses there and use the country’s natural resources to make their home country more powerful. Doing so helped them become so rich so much faster which was a huge reason for imperialization. Also, in document seven, or picture number two, there is clearly economic reasons for imperialism. The picture itself shows a greedy bourgeoisie milking India of its money which is a great political cartoon of imperialism. This is exactly what happened. For example, the greedy bourgeoisie would just take over places, like India, and just greedily take over and take advantage of them for their money. And finally, bourgeoisie would just bring their companies to the newly dominated countries to take advantage of their workers. According to webs.bcp.org : “[Bourgeoisie] ...sought ways to maximize profits… demanded on cheap labor, or access to or control of markets… and new natural resources.” The bosses of big companies would move their companies to this newly taken over …show more content…

Nationalism is the extreme pride in your own country, so often times it leads to extreme things, like imperialism. In the website enotes.com it says, “If people feel nationalistic, they might start to want to prove that their country is better than the others…” This is exactly the point of imperialism, people taking over other countries to prove that they are better, or to prove that they have the best empire. In document number six, or picture one, nationalism is clearly shown. After the greater imperialist nation dominated the other, the woman in the picture took her colored servants to take the picture. This proves that nationalism was a giant reason for imperialism because she wanted to take the picture just to show how much better she was than that country. Lastly, in document number one, the Prince Leopold showed that their country had a lot of nationalism, “all the unappropriated lands on the surface of the globe may become the field of our operations and our resources… since history teaches that colonies are useful, that they play a great part in that which makes up the power and prosperity of states, let us strive to get one in our turn.” One of the main parts of imperialism was to be the best country around, and when he says “let us strive to get one in our turn.” he has a lot of nationalism and wants his country to be the best and

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