The British Empire: A source for good or evil? February 2014 | Page 19

Document 2

If we actually look at the bloody origins of this nation with no
blinders on, we will be able to recognize the fact that genocide,
slavery, patriarchal subjugation of women and children, white
supremacy and military conquest have meant that we have
NEVER had a proud, compassionate, just or democracy-loving
nation or government.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE has financed and sponsored an
oppressive regime that they shared with the entire world. They
help the Confederates during the American Civil War. They have
ripped off cultures in Africa? Why don't these "conspiracy
theorists" mention that? Why don't they promote the fact that the British and the Pope have more money than any
other group or bank? From 1492 onwards to today, Indigenous, African, Mexican, Asian and female and young
people have NEVER had access to generous civil liberties, safety and freedom, constitutional protections or
economic prosperity. That glorious right to vote we hear praised as our ticket to freedom has only been “granted”
to women for one hundred of the last five hundred years and is still being denied to people of color.
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Document 3
The indigenous people in a colony were denied the right to vote, as we know in early-19th-century Britain very
few people had the right to vote. A survey conducted in 1780 revealed that the electorate in England and Wales
consisted of just 214,000 people - less than 3% of the total population of approximately 8 million. In Scotland the
electorate was even smaller: in 1831 a mere 4,500 men, out of a population of more than 2.6 million people, were
entitled to vote in parliamentary elections.
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Questions :
1.Using the introduction and document 1 and 4 say if the British Empire was a force for good or
evil? And find some examples.
2.From document 2 and document 3 say why the government prohibited the indigenous people to
have the right to vote.
Conclusion. Using these documents write a text which explains that the colonized people didn't
have the liberty to vote and to choose the way of life.