Resistance to Imperialism

Resistance to Imperialism

"The Conference of Berlin" By Adalbert von Rößler (†1922) - Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung, S.308; Am 28. April 2006 von Morty in die deutschsprachige Wikipedia geladen., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4259336

“On French Colonial Expansion” a speech before the French Chamber of Deputies, March 28, 1884, by Jules Ferry

• “Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly! We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races .... I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races .... In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood; and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race .... But, in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty.

Multiple Choice

What seems to be a primary motivator in the desire of European nations to colonize other nations and peoples, according to the text?

• spread civilization

• spread Christianity

• racism

• monetary gain