Examples Of American Imperialism

Imperialism once troubled America; and is still the case with many regions around the world. Efforts to secede from ones country have been accomplished many times throughout humanities history yet the same efforts in other regions often developed to nothing but further friction and division. Groups of people deserve to decide whether they choose to remain a part of a country or be self-determined. Instead of being tormented with the possible social, economic, political, aggression, and cultural issues that could potentially come from imperialism.

To begin with, an example of an economic burden lies in Catalonia who distributes their wealth to other regions of the European country Spain. Economically advantaged regions agitate for secession

This could mean that innocent humans can be in risk due to the tensions. Cole, Jones T. “Both raids were conducted by regular American forces, not bandits, vigilantes, or unruly militiamen, and both enjoyed the sanction...the results of the 1777 attack on General De Lancey’s home—private property in flames; unarmed women and children beaten, left homeless, and insulted; and servants murdered—would have been unthinkable in the spring of 1776 to those very types of men who were now so pleased.” "The rage of Tory-hunting": Loyalist Prisoners, Civil War, and the Violence of American Independence 81:3 (2017): 719-746 vol. America: History and life with full text. Web. 6 May 2018.This helps one portray how normal humans who had no intent of hurting anyone else had to unjutfully pay the price with thier own lives due to the rising tensions between the United States of America and Great

In the Northern tip of Africa the country of Morocco clashed it out with a European country. After the 100 years war France turned the attention towards Morocco. An issue with both of the countries initiated the Franco-Moroccan war; declared in1844. France ultimately won the war and the treaty of Tangers was signed. After the war was over France continued to find opportunities to annex Morocco as when of their own. Eventually many of France had already occupied northern morocco and was put under the protection under French rule in 1912 through the treaty of Fez the French laid a protector over Morocco this treaty ended Morocco’s reality as a completely independent country and gave France all control over Moroccan affairs; ultimately this lead to French culture assimilating in Morocco. Today in the country there are several of the countries inhabitants who speak Spanish, French, and Arabic due to imperialism. Flores, Micheal. Morocco and Imperialism.” https://prezi.com/o8yg03_jtgio/morocco-and-imperialism/. Accessed 7 May 2018. Through this one can see how the Moroccon society was changed because of the European influences upon them. This can ultimetly cause cultural issues because young children can absorb a good amount of European culture while thier parents still follow thier own way of lives and can cause the newer generations and older generations to disagree with ways both of these