Reach of Imperialism by Taylor Vidmar https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq en-us 2017-02-17 15:11:38 UTC 2017-02-21 12:20:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 87433 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154612223 https://youtu.be/alJaltUmrGo]]> 2017-02-17 15:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154612223 Reach of Imperialism 87348 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154614363 2017-02-17 15:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154614363 87433 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154802140 “They’ve taken everything from me. What was once a prosperous land has been taken out of my grasp and destroyed. I could do nothing as the foreigners stole from my plantation, my people. I could not fight back, I was helpless against the mass of people that were stronger and had more powerful weapons than I. Although they claimed they just wanted trade, it feels more like they’ve stolen from my plantation. They came directly to me to “trade”, rather than through intermediaries. For next to nothing in return, they have taken my rubber. Soon, there will be nothing left.
Yet, I have hope.I’ve heard of resistance groups forming. I’ve heard of a small group of Igbo, from Nigeria, fighting against the British; I’ve even heard of resistance from militaries nearby! Perhaps there will be a resistance here at some point. Though there isn’t much of it, I have hope.” ~ Savon, a rubber plantation owner, March 1835
]]> 2017-02-19 15:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154802140 87433 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154805045 “Everything has changed recently. Mommy and Daddy have been looking down for quite a while now. They have also started to change a lot of things. Yesterday, they came home speaking something I could not understand. Not only that, but they also came home wearing a cross around their necks, and they took down all of our religious decorations. 
I keep seeing more and more white men roaming our village. They all wear the same cross that my parents did. Some stay at stands in the new markets, others walk around giving villagers a book, a Bible. They are changing everything about how we live here, and I do not like it.”~Susi, a young African boy, May 1837
]]> 2017-02-19 16:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154805045 87433 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154806315 “I fear I may not make it much longer. It has been a year since the white men have come to my home, a year since I have been taken. I have become so sick, and I can not get the medicine to treat it. Working has become difficult, more than ever before. I can not afford the treatment with the money I have been saving up.
They[the white men] work us like slaves. I work from dusk until dawn, doing backbreaking labor on the cotton plantation. I work so incredibly hard for almost no profit. They give us so little money, so little food, that most of the men, like me, have been reduced to skeletons.There is no escape from these men, there is no hope.” Anonymous slave, July 1839

]]> 2017-02-19 16:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154806315 87433 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154807888 “Despite what many people are saying about the westerners invading our land, it seems to be doing more good than many realize. Ever since the white men came here, new buildings have been created, schools, hospitals, etc., and they have greatly benefitted us. Our people have the benefits of an education, something many of us never had before the foreigners came. We also have doctors that can heal many injuries and illnesses thanks to them.
Not only that, but the men brought markets with them. These markets have sold many important products to us, like medicines, foods, and stronger weapons. The markets also help us to sell our raw materials. I have seen no disadvantages to the foreigner's’ arrivals, just our society becoming more advanced and prosperous.”~ Zuli, a native villager, September 1836

]]> 2017-02-19 17:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/154807888 Reasons for Colonization 87797 https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/155050415 Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization—including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets—spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic.]]> 2017-02-21 02:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/985803/1uzzdnqom0dq/wish/155050415