Positive And Negative Effects Of Imperialism In Africa

Demarcus rivera

5/20/2018

A-1 DBQ 9: Imperialism in Africa

Question: Evaluate the new imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Africa. Were there any positive or negative effects of imperialism for the colonizer and those that were colonized?

Response: There were many positive and negative effects in the New imperialism in Africa, and I will break them down for you. The positive effects were that they had Unified Nations, better medical care and sanitation which caused higher life spans, also increased agriculture products, schools and hospitals-higher literacy rates, and African products became valuable on the international market.

Then there were negative effects, and those are that Natives lost control

That isn’t right, because the natives are doing everything. I see that the natives have to work under directions.

Document 2: The african is saying that people were trying to strip them of their responsibility by saying that African culture and history was nothing but savagery. And people saying that brought other African people self confidence down, so they had no self confidence.

Document 3: These people chose to condemned imperialism is because they saw that Africans were being not being allowed any of the human rights like-fundamental human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of movement, freedom of worship, and freedom to live a full and abundant

PART B-Essay:

Imperialism happened a lot in Africa, it was an bad stage. Don’t get me wrong, it was good points on it, just mostly bad. Blacks and Natives were treated bad in these era’s. Blacks and Natives were beaten forced to work more than the average white man, they worked most of the jobs, they even died trying to work at these jobs African soldiers went to war for the British, they fought in a lot of wars for the british people.

Imperialism started when whites first sailed to Africa. African and Native colonies were token over and africans were forced to fight in wars for the British and were forced to work for them. If the Africans or Natives refused they were hung or beaten to death, sum were even put in prison cells to rot for life. There wasn’t any happiness for any black nor’ Native men. The black and Native women were forced to be housewifes and the had to clean, cook, and even take care of kids that were not theirs. They were raped and beaten and slapped to