Rachels Paragraph with Citations

To start, numerous events occurred due to the imperialism in South Africa. First off, there were many advances in agriculture and mining, because of the imperialism. The mining industry grew enormously, because of the vast amount of gold and diamonds in South Africa (Library of Congress). Because of this growth in the industry, new ways had to be invented to do things in a faster manner. In addition, because of the Imperialism, the Europeans thought of themselves as superior people. The Europeans thought this, because they had better technology, weapons, and could take over the African colonies. They thought they were a better and more dominant race (Wikipedia). Many Europeans and Africans also died, because of the spread of foreign diseases. Diseases like Influenza, Small pox, malaria, mumps, trachoma, etc, affected the South Africans (Library of Congress). They had never faced diseases like this before. To sum up, the effects were to a certain extent political and economic.

Callie Cause Paragraph with Citations

Secondly, the British imperialism in South Africa came from their drive to convert people to Christianity. Protestants from England were opposed to slavery, and felt it was their moral duty to stop the Swahili slave trade (Baldwin, Imperialism in Africa). They also believed that it was their job to convert non-Christians, and they sought to do so in South Africa. The British were also in competition with France over who could gain the most territory. Britain took over Niger, Nigeria, Nyasaland and Bechuanaland. The French were also threatening Britain with plans to divert the Nile River, and render their territory useless (Baldwin, Imperialism in Africa). Aside from economic reasons, the British colonized South Africa for social and political reasons.


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here is my source also i think for Rachel:

Baldwin, Scott. "British Imperialism in Africa." Imperialism in Africa. Chico Unified School District. 17 Mar. 2009 .

make sure this isn't a duplicate and that you indent the second line and that it's in alphabetical order.

Callie Cause Paragraph with Citations

Essay Rough Draft 2

Maddy Gamble
Callie Norberg
Rachel Stein
Claire Bjerke
Maria Finsness

Mr.Cheng

1st Hour English

March 27th, 2009


Imperialism

Do you know what it feels like for a foreign power to come into your homeland, and start to control your day-to-day life? In modern times like today, most people are not experiencing this. Starting the late 1800’s, natives of Africa, India and Asia felt trapped because forces such as Britain controlled their land. This policy of a foreign power extending its hegemony over an underdeveloped area for economic, political, and social reasons is referred to as imperialism. Because of imperialism, natives are forced or decide to change their ways. This idea is portrayed in Things Fall Apart, written by Chebe. A significant character Nowye converted over to Christianity because he agreed with the core beliefs. He created a sense of belonging with the other converts, missionaries, and the Christian God. Another example is how Okonkwo, the main character, fights against the British forces that were invading his land. He did not want to appear inferior to them and he wanted to be the leader, thus he attempted to drive them out. Back to the general idea of imperialism- the causes and effects of imperialism in South Africa were many, and they all fall under the categories of social, political, and economic.

First, the British imperialized for many reasons. One of which was to protect their economy. The British economy was very dependent on trade and by developing their colonies that expanded their trade. The colonies were potential markets for industrial products. Since Africa was undeveloped, land was cheap, which simplified achieving their goal. The need to imperialize was important because the British needed to protect their trade routes with India from France and Germany. Originally, they never really cared about Africa until they discovered gold and diamonds in the 1870's. After these discoveries, there was an overseas expansion in raw materials; rubber, tin, copper, petroleum, etc. Through these developed trade routes, not only did the British economy expand, but also European merchants and entrepreneurs made personal fortunes. In conclusion, some of the British reasoning was economic.

Secondly, the British imperialism in South Africa came from their drive to convert people to Christianity. Protestants from England were opposed to slavery, and felt it was their moral duty to stop the Swahili slave trade. They also believed that it was their job to convert non-Christians, and they sought to do so in South Africa. The British were also in competition with France over who could gain the most territory. Britain took over Niger, Nigeria, Nyasaland and Bechuanaland. The French were also threatening Britain with plans to divert the Nile River, and render their territory useless. Aside from imperialism’s effects, some of the causes were social and political

To start, numerous events occurred due to the imperialism in South Africa. First off, there were many advances in agriculture and mining, because of the imperialism. The mining industry grew enormously, because of the vast amount of gold and diamonds in South Africa. Because of this growth in the industry new way had to be invented to do things in a faster manner. In addition, because of the Imperialism the Europeans thought of themselves as superior people. The Europeans thought this, because they had better technology, weapons, and could take over the African colonies they were a better and more dominant race. Many Europeans and Africans also died, because of the spread of foreign diseases. Diseases like Influenza, Small pox, malaria, mumps, trachoma, etc, affected the South Africans. They had never faced diseases like this before. To sum up, the effects were to a certain extent political and economic.

Next, many changes began to take place in the culture, the people, and infrastructure. When the British were coming in, they brought along their culture and their traditions. They brought in Christianity and missionaries. Because of the missionaries, the natives started to convert to Christianity, loosing their old religion along the way. Land was taken away from the natives, and they were forced to pay taxes (Zigler). The land that was taken away from the natives were then given to the British so that they could farm for themselves (Zigler). Lastly, the imperialism of South Africa destroyed the African ruling system. The South African countries could not maintain their infrastructure, and the Europeans built a new infrastructure. They were not strong enough to participate in the global economy once they regained independence from Europe (Wikipedia). The imperialism destroyed the traditional culture of South Africa, bought many changes to the native people, and changed the whole infrastructure that the natives built their lives around. To conclude, many of the effects were social.

I bet most of you are wondering…What can we do to prevent or stop imperialism around the world? The answer to that is quite simple- to get organized. What I mean by that is to raise funds, organize military forces against it, and establish a group determined people. There are already many present and past groups such as International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and The Anti-Imperialist Committee of Correspondence that have been working or worked on stopping imperialism. In addition, we need to educate the younger generations about the negative effects, so that they do not get a crazy idea to imperialize. If we can abolish all foreign control, countries will be able to lead independently. That will make the world a better place!







Works Cited

Baldwin, Scott. Imperialism in Africa. Chicago. 19 Mar 2009 .

Baldwin, Scott. Imperialism in Africa. Chico Unifies School District. 3/19/09.

Cullen, Valaerie. Protecting British interests, not Christianity, was the Cause of British Imperialism. 3/19/09.

MapXL Inc. Maps of the World. New York. 2009.

Library of Congress Country Studies. May 1996. Library of Congress. 3/19/09.

THE BUILDING OF GLOBAL EMPIRES." Traditions Encounters. 15 Mar 2009. BentleyZiegler.25Mar2009.http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072957549/stu dent_view0/chapter33

Wikipedia. 3/21/09. Wikipedia Foundation Inc. 3/19/09.

Works Cited

Work Cited

Wikipedia. 3/21/09. Wikipedia Foundation Inc. 3/19/09.


Library of Congress Country Studies. May 1996. Library of Congress. 3/19/09.


Baldwin, Scott. Imperialism in Africa. Chico Unifies School District. 3/19/09.




Cullen, Valaerie. Protecting British interests, not Christianity, was the Cause of British Imperialism. 3/19/09.



MapXL Inc. Maps of the World. New York. 2009.


Baldwin, Scott. Imperialism in Africa. Chicago. 19 Mar 2009 .

Effects of Imperialism

In South Africa there were numerous events that occurred due to the imperialism. First off, there were many advances in agriculture and mining, because of the imperialism. The mining industry grew enormously, because of the vast amount of gold and diamonds in South Africa. Because of this growth in the industry new way had to be invented to do things in a faster manner. Also, because of the Imperialism the Europeans thought of themselves as superior people. The Europeans thought this, because they had better technology, weapons, and could take over the African colonies they were a better and more dominant race. Many Europeans and Africans also died, because of the spread of foreign diseases. The South Africans were affected by diseases like Influenza, Small pox, malaria, mumps, trachoma, etc. They had never faced diseases like this before.

Our Rough Draft essay

Maddy Gamble
Callie Norberg
Rachel Stein
Claire Bjerke
Maria Finsness

Do you know what it feels like for a foreign power to come into your homeland, and start to control your day-to-day life? In modern times like today, most people are not experiencing this. Starting the late 1800’s, natives of Africa, India and Asia felt trapped because forces such as Britain controlled their land. This policy of a foreign power extending its hegemony over an underdeveloped area for economic, political, and social reasons is referred to as imperialism. Because of imperialism, natives are forced or decide to change their ways. This idea is portrayed in Things Fall Apart, written by Chebe. A significant character Nowye converted over to Christianity because he agreed with the core beliefs. He created a sense of belonging with the other converts, missionaries, and the Christian God. Another example is how Okonkwo, the main character, fights against the British forces that were invading his land. He did not want to appear inferior to them and he wanted to be the leader, thus he attempted to drive them out. Those examples go to show that imperialism had negative and positive affects on the victim countries.

Once Britain had settled in South African, many changes began to take place in the culture, the people, and infrastructure. When the British were coming in, they brought along their culture and their traditions. They brought in Christianity and missionaries. Because of the missionaries, the natives started to convert to Christianity, loosing their old religion along the way. Land was taken away from the natives, and they were forced to pay taxes. The land that was taken away from the natives were then given to the British so that they could farm for themselves. Lastly, the imperialism of South Africa destroyed the African ruling system. The South African countries could not maintain their infrastructure, and the Europeans built a new infrastructure. They were not strong enough to participate in the global economy once they regained independence from Europe. The imperialism destroyed the traditional culture of South Africa, bought many changes to the native people, and changed the whole infrastructure that the natives built their lives around.

In South Africa there were numerous events that occurred due to the imperialism. First off, there were many advances in agriculture and mining, because of the imperialism. The mining industry grew enormously, because of the vast amount of gold and diamonds in South Africa. Because of this growth in the industry new way had to be invented to do things in a faster manner. Also, because of the Imperialism the Europeans thought of themselves as superior people. The Europeans thought this, because they had better technology, weapons, and could take over the African colonies they were a better and more dominant race. Many Europeans and Africans also died, because of the spread of foreign diseases. The South Africans were affected by diseases like Influenza, Small pox, malaria, mumps, trachoma, etc. They had never faced diseases like this before.
The British imperialism in South Africa came from their drive to convert people to Christianity. Protestants from England were opposed to slavery, and felt it was their moral duty to stop the Swahili slave trade. They also believed that it was their job to convert non-Christians, and they sought to do so in South Africa. The British were also in competition with France over who could gain the most territory. Britain took over Niger, Nigeria, Nyasaland and Bechuanaland. The French were also threatening Britain with plans to divert the Nile River, and render their territory useless. Aside from imperialism’s effects, the causes were very practical.

The British imperialized for many reasons. One of which was to protect their economy. The British economy was very dependent on trade and by developing their colonies that expanded their trade. The colonies were potential markets for industrial products. Since Africa was undeveloped, land was cheap, which simplified achieving their goal. The need to imperialize was important because the British needed to protect their trade routes with India from France and Germany. Originally, they never really cared about Africa until they discovered gold and diamonds in the 1870's. After these discoveries, there was an overseas expansion in raw materials; rubber, tin, copper, petroleum, etc. Through this developed trade routes, not only did the British economy expand, but European merchants and entrepreneurs made personal fortunes.

I bet most of you are wondering…What can we do to prevent or stop imperialism around the world? The answer to that is quite simple- to get organized. What I mean by that is to raise funds, organize military forces against it, and establish a group determined people. There are already many present and past groups such as International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and The Anti-Imperialist Committee of Correspondence that have been working or worked on stopping imperialism. In addition, we need to educate the younger generations about the negative effects, so that they do not get a crazy idea to imperialize. If we can abolish all foreign control, countries will be able to lead independently. That will make the world a better place!

Maddy's Paragraphs

Do you know what it feels like for a foreign power to come into your homeland, and start to control your day-to-day life? In modern times like today, most people are not experiencing this. Starting the late 1800’s, natives of Africa, India and Asia felt trapped because forces such as Britain controlled their land. This policy of a foreign power extending its hegemony over an underdeveloped area for economic, political, and social reasons is referred to as imperialism. Because of imperialism, natives are forced or decide to change their ways. This idea is portrayed in Things Fall Apart, written by Chebe. A significant character Nowye converted over to Christianity because he agreed with the core beliefs. He created a sense of belonging with the other converts, missionaries, and the Christian God. Another example is how Okonkwo, the main character, fights against the British forces that were invading his land. He did not want to appear inferior to them and he wanted to be the leader, thus he attempted to drive them out. Those examples go to show that imperialism had negative and positive affects on the victim countries.

I bet most of you are wondering…What can we do to prevent or stop imperialism around the world? The answer to that is quite simple- to get organized. What I mean by that is to raise funds, organize military forces against it, and establish a group determined people. There are already many present and past groups such as International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and The Anti-Imperialist Committee of Correspondence that have been working or worked on stopping imperialism. In addition, we need to educate the younger generations about the negative effects, so that they do not get a crazy idea to imperialize. If we can abolish all foreign control, countries will be able to lead independently. That will make the world a better place!

Causes Paragraph- Callie

The British imperialism in South Africa came from their drive to convert people to Christianity. Protestants from England were opposed to slavery, and felt it was their moral duty to stop the Swahili slave trade. They also believed that it was their job to convert non-Christians, and they sought to do so in South Africa. The British were also in competition with France over who could gain the most territory. Britain took over Niger, Nigeria, Nyasaland and Bechuanaland. The French were also threatening Britain with plans to divert the Nile River, and render their territory useless. 

Effect Paragraph- Maria

Once Britain had settled in South African, many changes began to take place in the culture, the people, and infrastructure. When the British were coming in, they brought along their culture and their traditions. They brought in Christianity and missionaries. Because of the missionaries, the natives started to convert to Christianity, loosing their old religion along the way. Land was taken away from the natives, and they were forced to pay taxes. The land that was taken away from the natives were then given to the British so that they could farm for themselves. Lastly, the imperialism of South Africa destroyed the African ruling system. The South African countries could not maintain their infrastructure, and the Europeans built a new infrastructure. They were not strong enough to participate in the global economy once they regained independence from Europe. The imperialism destroyed the traditional culture of South Africa, bought many changes to the native people, and changed the whole infrastructure that the natives built their lives around.

Flow Map Continued

Effects on Imperialism

By Bently Zigler
Japan now a major imperial power
Legacies of imperialism
Empire and economy: two patterns of changes
Colonial rule transformed traditional production of crops and commodities
Indian cotton grown to serve British textile industry
Inexpensive imported textiles undermined Indian production
New crops transformed landscape and society
Rain forests of Ceylon converted to tea plantations
Ceylonese women recruited to harvest tea
Rubber plantations transformed Malaya and Sumatra
Labor migrations
European migration
Fifty million Europeans migrated 1800-1914, over half to the United States
Other settler colonies in Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
Most European migrants became cultivators, herders, or skilled laborers
Indentured labor migration more typical from Asia, Africa, and Pacific islands
About 2.5 million indentured laborers globally during 1820-1914
Indentured migrants tended to work on tropical and subtropical plantations
Example: Indian laborers to Pacific island and Caribbean plantations
Japanese laborers to Hawaiian sugar plantations
Large-scale migrations reflected global influence of imperialism
Empire and society
Colonial conflict not uncommon in nineteenth century
In India, numerous insurrections, such as the sepoy rebellion of 1857
1905, Maji Maji rebellion in east Africa thought traditional magic would defeat the Germans
Resistance included boycotts, political parties, anticolonial publications
Conflict among different groups united under colonial rule, for example, Hawaii
"Scientific racism" popular in nineteenth century
Race became the measure of human potential; Europeans considered superior
Gobineau divided humanity into four main racial groups, each with peculiar traits
Social Darwinism: "survival of fittest" used to justify European domination
Colonial experience only reinforced popular racism
Assumed moral superiority of Europeans
Racist views in U.S. treatment of Filipinos, Japanese treatment of Koreans
Nationalism and anticolonial movements
Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), "father of modern India"
Sought an Indian society based on European science and traditional Hinduism
Used press to mobilize educated Hindus and advance reform
The Indian National Congress, founded 1885
Educated Indians met, with British approval, to discuss public affairs
Congress aired grievances about colonial rule, sought Indian self-rule
1906, All-India Muslim League formed to advance interests of Indian Muslims
Limited reform, 1909; wealthy Indians could elect representatives to local councils
Indian nationalism a powerful movement, achieved independence in 1947
India served as a model for anticolonial campaigns in other lands



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Claire- CAUSE essay rough draft- with citation

The British imperialized for many reasons. One of which was to protect their economy. The British economy was very dependent on trade and by developing their colonies, that expanded their trade (Cullen). The colonies were potential markets for industrial products. Since Africa was undeveloped, land was cheap, which simplified achieving their goal. The need to imperialise was important because the British needed to protect their trade routes with India from France and Germany (Baldwin). Originally, they never really cared about Africa until they discovered gold and diamonds in the 1870's (Cullen). After these discoveries, there was an overseas expansion in raw materials; rubber, tin, copper, petroleum, etc. Through this developed trade routes, not only did the British economy expand, but European merchants and entrepreneurs made personal fortunes (Baldwin).

Claire- Notes 2

Cullen, Valerie. "Protecting British interests, not Christianity, was the Cause of British Imperialism ." Think Quest. 20 Mar 2009 http://library.thinkquest.org/17120/data/essays/brit_af/.

• practices imperialism for trade, but very little in Africa
• British economy very dependent on trade, colonies expanded trade
• they took control of it simply because the native political structure was too unstable for good commerce without British control
• invaded to protect India, their biggest money maker (from Germany and France)
• discovered gold an diamonds in 1870's
• land was cheap

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Multi Flow map in progress

Maria F. Notes # 1

This a little time line of when er ope came to south Africa:


In the 15Th century, South Africa came into contact with Europe with Portuguese traders
In the 17Th century, the Dutch stated coming in. They settled the land and called themselves Afrikaners.
By the 19Th century, the British started a formal imperial rule over the Afrikaners and the native Africans
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Effect

• The discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 leads to the imposition of formal British rule over South Africa and superseded all existing conflicts.
• Imperialism in South Africa provoked racial discrimination later in twentieth-century, which leads to Apartheid.
• Imperialism in South Africa was the main cause of the widespread racial discrimination in South Africa

"Imperialism in South Africa." Maps of the World 2009 19 Mar 2009. .

Claire- Notes 1

• invaded to serve their own interests
• British were anti-slavery Protestants
• the British obligated to stop Swahili slave trade
• the Suez Canal and South Africa heightened interested the British because they appeared to be two financially beneficial opportunities
• the British invaded Egypte to protect the Suez Canal
• the Suez Canal made for British ship travel to India
• the tip of Africa was seen as profitable
• British hated being second class citizens
• British would not allow the French to join in the Egyptian affairs
• France eventually lost all their power over Egypte through the British army
• British took over the slave trading capital of Khartoum
• this gave British more control and power over the Nile
• British did not want control over Niger because it was a financial worry

Baldwin, Scott. "Imperialism in Africa." 19 Mar 2009 .

Callie. Cause and Effects

the Causes:
...the British felt morally inclined to stop the Swahili-slave trade
...the Suez Canal that ran through Egypt and could provide an easier route to India was under French control when it opened
...wealthy port cities on the southern tip
...diamond field discovered in Kimberley
...obligation to protect the Suez Canal
...French talk about diverting the Nile, so that Egypt isn't as wealthy and powerful. The British sought to gain more control of the Nile
Imperialism:
...when the khedive of Egypt ran into financial trouble, the British bought most of the stock for the Suez Canal, and it became under British control
...the British annexed Kimberley and the Transvaal. the Boers people revolted, and the Anglo-Boer war began in 1899
...the Boers lost the war, but Britain allowed them to create their own independent republic to avoid a financial burdern and a morally questionable situation
...British gained control of more cities near the Nile
Effects:
...the British Navy stopped the trade of slaves
...the British realized the burden of colonies
...the British left when financial trouble struck, and they only wanted wealthy areas
...the British gave up control of the Boer colony
...really only kept the Suez Canal

Imperialism in Africa. Chico Unified School District. March 19, 2009. http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/imperialism/baldwin.htm

Imperialism in South Africa Notes

Cause

• Diamonds were discover in1867, and the british came to South Africa to annex the diamond fields.
• Large amounts of Gold were discovered by the europeans in Witwatersand in 1886.Effect

Effect

• The imperialism of South Africa eestroyed the african Ruling System. Men in power were forcefully kicked out of their positioned or told how they need to govern.
• Four mines were developed in the town of kimberly, in South Africa. This town became the largest urban society in the 70's and 80's in South Africa
• The company who controlled the mines was a monopoly, Cecil Rhodes De Beers Consolidated Mines.
• From 1870 to 1900 the Cape Colonies of South Africa exports rose by £13,000,000.
• European residents doubled from 1865 to 1900
• Gold mining companies dominated the industries way into the 20th century
• Cecil Rhodes ruled over the Ndebele and Shona people throught his British South African Company. He wanted to create his own empire with these people to compensate for not doing as well in the Gold industry as he did in the diamond industry.
• The Gold mines employed 100,000 african laborers and the Diamond mines employed about 50,000 african laborers.
• The Boer War resulted from the Imperialism in South Africa. In this war the british empire fought against the boers. The boers were people who had migrated away from the british empire in the cape colony. They had created 2 Boer republics(The orange free state and Transvaal.) The tensions between the two resutled in to the first boer war and the second boer war. Things were finally settled in 1902 in the treaty Veerening, and the boer republics were absorbed into the British empire.

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