Part I: Question #1 Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was during the late 18th century and early 19th century. This revolution was a period where new inventions were been made to improve industrialization in Great Britian. Great Britain was the first coutry to start it's industrial revolution because, Great Britain had an abundant amount of natural resources coal and iron. During the industrial revolution trade increased and Great Britain had more cultural diffusion. The industrial revolution led to the creation of a new economic system, capitalism. Capitalism is when all the business are privately owned by factory owners. Factory owners had to start traveling to get new resources to bring back to Great Britain, this spark interest in Africa.

Africa has several natural resources like oil, coal, gold and diamonds which interest Europeans to imperalism during the 19th and 20th century. Europeans wanted to improve their balance trade and economy by importing raw materials to Europe. The industrial revolution had a major impact on the imperialism of Africa.

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Part II. Question # 9: Independence Movement of Ghana

The Republic of Ghana is a country is West Africa. After suffering under the British control, Ghana also known as the Gold Coast, was the first Africam country to gained independence in March 4, 1957. Ghana was one of the richest countries in Africa before it was conquest by British in 1896. After World War II things began to change in Gold Coast, discrimination against educated Ghanaians increased and high positions were reserved for whitemen while Ghanaians became slaves. The African rights were been violated by the Europeans. The first political party was formed in August 1947 by Paa Grant, it was named the United Gold Coast Convention {U.G.C.C}. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became the full-time General Secretary of the party. In January 1948, Nii Kwabena Bonne III, a Ga chief organized a boycott of all European imports. Several boycotts continued, after all the riots the Nationalist Leader in Ghana blamed the Governor, Sir Gerald for all the problems the country was facing. The Secretary State blamed the Nationalist leaders for being responsible for the chaos in Ghana. After this, six of the nationalist leader were arrested, these leaders were known as BIG SIX. These leaders were Dr. J.B Danquah, Dr. Kwame, Obetsebi Lamptey, Akuffo Addo, William Ofori and Ako Adjei.

Kwame Nkrumah left the U.G.C.C and formed a more nationalist party- Convention People's Party {C.P.P} on June 12, 1949. On January 9, 1950 the C.P.P organized a nation wide boycott and strike for workers. January 21st 1950, Kwame and other C.P.P leader were imprisoned for going against the goverment which made Kwame a hero in front of Ghanaians. In 1953, Dr. Kwame made a new proposal for a new constitution. A general election in June 1954 from which the C.P.P won 74 seats out of 104 of the National Assembly. In 1956, another general election was held in response to a pledge by the British Secretary of State, C.P.P won 71 seats out of 104.

This action led to Ghana's Independence in March 6th, 1957. Ghana became the first country in Africa, South of the Sahara to gain independence from colonial power. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became the Prime Minister and then first President.

Ghana wanted independence because Ghanaians wanted to have more rights and freedom, they also wanted to defit the colonial power of British. This independence movement compares to the history of Sierra Leone because African did anything to obtain freedom.

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Part I: Question#4-ROLE OF IMPERIALISM IN THE 19TH -20TH CENTURY PLAYED IN THE SPARKING CIVIL WAR IN SIERRA LEONE

European countries went to Sierra Leone, Africa because that is a major part of Africa that has an abundance of diamonds. Europeans wanted their diamonds as natural resources, for industrialization. They wanted to sell their diamonds in America. The Africans didn’t want them to take their diamonds so they had to fight for it, known as the civil war in sierra leone. Some of the causes of the civil war was unemployment, tribalism, poor economic conditions, and corruption. The sierra leone civil war began in march1991, by a group known as RUF(revolutionary united front).Ten of thousands died and 2 million people were displaced because of conflict.

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Part I. Question 3: Compare & Contrast Age of Exploration with the Imperlism of Africa

Age of Exploration also known as the Age of Discovery was a period from the early 15th century and 16th century during which Europeans countries traveled around the world in search for new trade routes and countries to imperialize. The most valuable trading goods were gold, silver and spices. The Age of exploration was caused by the new technology and ideas developed during the renaissance. Another cause is the crusades, after the crusades philosophers wanted to start looking for answers and merchant wanted to start new businesses, also Europeans wanted to spread christianity.

The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa was when the European countries claimed the African territory during the new Imperialism period between the 1880’s. The scramble for Africa was caused because back in Europe the Industrial Revolution was going on so factory owners need materials for their products. Africa had many natural resources which attracted European countries like Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy etc. Africa was divided into different tribes and kingdoms during the Berlin conference, making Africans enemies.

* One similarity between these two turning points is that the rights of the people that were colonize by the European countries decrease. A simple difference is that these two events occured in different ages, and that their causes were different too.

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Part I: Question#2-EFFECTS OF BERLIN CONFERENCE ON AFRICANS AND EUROPEANS

The Berlin conference and the imperialism of Africa affected both the colonized Africans and the European colonizers. Europeans got more land and more natural resources for their industrialization. The Africans got less land, and were restricted to many other things. They had very negative effects. The Africans got affected in many ways such things like, many hundreds of thousands of Africans died of warfare. Also, African traditional cultures broke down because of assimilation, and colonization. Assimilation is when people of a different background come to see themselves as a part of a larger national family. Obviously, the Europeans got benefited more from the Berlin conference.

By:Betty Balcacer