COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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a lack of foreign-made manufactured goods
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a decrease in demand for raw materials
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the colony was no longer self-sufficient
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an increase in the food supply
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Detailed explanation-1: -The consequences of economic imperialism on West Africa have included exploitative resource extraction, proxy and resource influenced civil wars, illegal trade in natural resources, mass poverty, and external migration of skilled workers necessary for national development.
Detailed explanation-2: -ECONOMIC motives included the desire to make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods.
Detailed explanation-3: -Colonialism’s impacts include environmental degradation, the spread of disease, economic instability, ethnic rivalries, and human rights violations-issues that can long outlast one group’s colonial rule.