New Imperialism Dbq Essay

From capitalism and communism to the struggles between the power hungry Europeans and the natives of the new world. The history of European countries sneaking resources from Africa. As well with the ideas of Karl Marx on communism and Adam Smith with capitalism. People of the proletariat or middle class have not been treated fairly by the higher class as we know as the bourgeoisie or high class. Adam Smith’s idea on capitalism is still used in our modern day world. For example, The United States of America. Which allows you to make profits and escalate in your career without the restrictions of having to stay in a job for the rest of your life. In capitalism the people of the high class (bourgeoisie) were the most powerful and richest business owners that had factories. Smith stated in the “Nature and causes if the wealth of Nations” the following, “give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want”. This quote lets you …show more content…
In document 2 it states the following, “Colonialism’s greatest misdeed was to have tried to strip us of our responsibility in conducting our own affairs and convince us that our civilization was nothing less than savagery, thus giving us complexes which led to our being branded as irresponsible and lacking in self-confidence.” Toure believed that the New Imperialism of Africa had a negative effect on Africans. The citizens of Africa didn’t have not responsibility for their government. They became inferior and the result of it was the lack of their self-confidence with European powers. In addition, document 5 states, “When the whites came to our country, we had the land and they had the Bible; now we have the Bible and they have the land.” The proverb is suggesting that the Africans had lost their land to the whites. An in return the Africans got a new religion, Christianity. Which implies that the Africans lost more then what they gained in