Positive And Negative Effects Of Imperialism In Africa

Demarcus rivera

5/20/2018

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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

of their lands and lost independence. Expanded popularity resulted in famine, cash crops-displaced the food crops, which resulted in famine. The Natives died of new diseases (EX: Smallpox). Then thousands of people died because of rebellions.(INFO FROM:https://quizlet.com/39870081/positive-and-negative-effects-of-imperialism-flash-cards/)

Document 1: It mententions that the foreigners takes wealth out the country, but the hard work is done by the natives.

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

life.

Document 4: The negative thing in it was the fact that the author was saying that the colonial powers failed to provide African people with sufficient preparation. And none of the newly independent countries had enough skilled African administrators to run their own thing, so they all failed miserably.
The only positive thing I see is when it says- it was the colonial powers who were largely responsible for the opening of the lumberman, miner, planter, and other men of means without whom the wealth would be continued to lie fallow. That means that the negative effects didn’t effect the wealth of the country.

Document 5: This is saying at first the Africans had all the lands and ruled over everything, but the whites took over and now Africans have the bible.

Document 6: This poem is stating the actions that white men were doing to black family’s.

Document 7: The colonies were running out of money and going broke was because they were making the wrong decisions.

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

death.

Then there was a turning point in the whole thing. So many black men and women were dying and hurt for all the working, and the the colonies couldn’t take care of their responsibilities and got lazy, so everything got messed up and everything went out of hand. Every colony started going broke and in depth, so they all were losing thousands of dollars and started losing workers. Therefore everything in the Imperialism came down crashing down. And it all ended.