Motives for British Imperlialism

1. Slavery was declining because it was starting to seem immoral. They thought that the right thing to do would be to free the slaves. This effected British imperialism by bringing a little, tiny, miniscule, microscopic bit of peace to Britain. Also, they had to pay people to work now that slaves were gone, forcing them to raise the taxes and prices of goods and also forcing them to get goods from other countries like India.

2. Halstead believed that industry and trade did not have an affect on British imperialism because imperialism was just another method of foreign policy while industry and trade were the bases of British power. I somewhat agree, that imperialism was another method of foreign policy, but industry and trade must have something to do with imperialism in some way.

3. Halstead was a supporter of British imperialism, saying that it would only cause more good and less problems. Others believed that British imperialism would make life worse and hurt society.

4. Halstead's final reasonings were that "British imperialism during the period of the 'ew imperialism' was motivated by
several factors: national security, protecting free trade, protecting commercial routes,
competition for markets and spheres of influence, settlement, colonization, diplomacy, and
ideology."