AP Practice (Not Required): African Response to Imperialism mini-DBQ

Using the documents, write a mini-DBQ. Include the following...

An Introduction with a historically defensible claim and contextualization.
A body paragraph that includes...
- Describe TWO of THREE documents and use them to support your claim.
- Sourcing (HAPPY Analysis) for TWO documents.
- ONE piece of evidence beyond the document.

Question 1

Essay

Evaluate the extent to which various African responses to European Imperialism differed.

Source 1.1

We, the undersigned Chiefs of _______, with the view to the bettering of our country and people, do this day cede to the Royal Niger Company, forever, the whole of our territory extending ______.

We pledge ourselves not to enter into any war with other tribes without the sanction of the said Royal Niger Company. . . . The said Royal Niger Company bind themselves not to interfere with any of the native laws or customs of the country, consistently with the maintenance of order and good government. The said Royal Niger Company agree to pay native owners of land a reasonable amount for any portion they may require. . . . and to pay the said Chiefs __________ measures native value.

The ________ chiefs . . . affixed their marks of their own free will and consent. . . .

Done in triplicate at __, this ____________ day, of __, 188____.

Royal Niger Company, commissioned by the British government to administer and develop the Niger River delta and surrounding areas, standard form signed by multiple African rulers, 1886.

Source 1.2

Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward and fight for our King. If it were in the brave days of old, chiefs would not sit down to see their King taken away without firing a shot. No White man could have dared to speak to chiefs of the Ashanti in the way the British governor spoke to you chiefs this morning. Is it true that the bravery of the Ashanti is no more? I cannot believe it. Yea, it cannot be! I must say this; if you the men of Ashanti will not go forward, then we will. We the women will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the White men. We will fight until the last of us falls on the battlefields.

Yaa Asantewa, Ashanti queen mother, speech to chiefs, West Africa, 1900.

Source 1.3

All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of little avail, for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. Hence I appeal to you my Brother, not to hold aloof from the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of maltreatment, imprisonment, or some other calamity. Tell all the chiefs down there to rise and do battle.

Samuel Maherero, a leader of the Herero people, letter to another African leader, German South-West Africa, 1904.

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