Essay On Imperialism In Uganda

Uganda was a simple and innocent country, but during the time around 1894-1962, Uganda had and economic growth and advances, but with the cost of having to deal with a decrease in population, and having people be in force labor with Britain constantly tricking and controlling them. What all this means is, the British powers exerted over Uganda during the Age of Imperialism because they grew their economy by growing cotton, increasing education for the youth and churches so people learned how to read and write, and lastly because the British were more powerful and wanted to use Uganda for their own country’s personal uses.
One reason why they were able to become a colony was because the British told and helped Uganda’s economy grow and become stronger. One of the main reasons the economy grew so much was because of cotton. In 1904, the British were forcing Uganda's to harvest raw cotton, which was used for both country’s profit. The British were so focused on the production of raw cotton, that on one site it says, “They also exploited the people for their labor in cotton farms” where the British said that they were just trying to help them. It was mainly cotton they focused on but they did harvest other goods like coffee, which was somewhat another good that was demanded by the British. All of this forced labor did do lots of damage to …show more content…
They gave schools and education to the people so at the end they were be convinced to fall for their plan of doing whatever the British wanted for profit. So what that they did this to Uganda, and not only is it downright cruel, but the map that has every place that was colonized/influenced by Britain, can show that they did the same thing to other places. The British just couldn’t handle themselves, with the fact that they had to colonize and try to make even more money off a not as morden country, like