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Mexico
After gaining independence in 1821, the country was left in a poor state. Agricultural, mining and industrial production had fallen during the war, and over half a million Mexicans had died. As a new country, Mexico was struggling internally to achieve nationhood. -
Australia
British imperialism settled Australia as a penal colony, having ruthlessly seized it from the native people. Britain was the colonial power which established the penal colony and then developed Australia as a colony which largely supplied raw materials for British industry and imported finished products from Britain. -
Malaysia
Much economic growth occurred; British policies promoted the planting of pepper, gambier (a plant producing a resin used for tanning and dyeing), tobacco, oil palm, and especially rubber, which along with tin became the region's major exports. -
New Zealand
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840. -
China
Macartney expedition to China fails to open up ports. 1839 to 1842: the First Opium War ends with British victory and Hong Kong's colonization. 1850 to 1864: the Taiping Rebellion devastates China. 1856 to 1860: the Second Opium War ends with British and French victory. -
India
A period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company. -
Vietnam
As a colonized nation, Viet Nam's natural resources were exploited, its people were treated with disdain and impoverished, and its leaders were rendered powerless. Resistance movements began to develop almost immediately. But the first notable movement against the French was that of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang Party. -
Egypt
The loss of culture, westernisation, continued low level of education and absence of a health care system display the negative impacts imperialism had on Egypt during the early twentieth century. Furthermore, as a result of imperialism Egypt suffered a great loss of freedom and control over its own country. -
Sudan
The British colonial policy in Sudan developed unsustainable power structures between the North and the South, and between ethnic groups in the South. The result of this mismanagement, underdevelopment, and neglect was the Northern dominance and hegemony within the independent Sudanese government. -
Congo
The effects of imperialism on the Congo were the depletion of natural resources and the severe mistreatment of the residents. The Congo Basin was a densely forested area, so deforestation soon became an environmental effect of imperialism. -
Phillipines
The U.S. denied the people who lived in these lands the rights of full citizenship. Instead, it waged wars, conducted dangerous medical experiments on these populations, and imposed economic, political, and social systems to benefit U.S. economic interests. This included restructuring the Philippines government. -
Cuba
The United States occupation of Cuba from 1898 until 1902 secured the island as a neo-colonial possession through political coercion, cultural domination, and financial investment. Jose Marti's vision of a new, democratic, diverse and egalitarian republic fell victim to the protectorate. -
Kenya
The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as Mau Mau, and the British authorities. -
Austria
From the 17th century through to the 19th century, the Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Empire, and (from 1867 to 1918) the Austro-Hungarian Empire made a few small short-lived attempts to expand overseas colonial trade through the acquisition of factories. -
Indonesia
During the long period of colonial rule, the Indonesian economy fell more completely under the control of the -- the Dutch, and for a brief period the British -- than almost any other territory.