It is a political cartoon my Benjamin Franklin targeting the British colonies. The letters above the snake are abbreviated names for these colonies.
Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers.
The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization—including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets—spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic.
The two types of government that I chose are parliamentary government and a presidential government. In a parliamentary government the legislative branch holds all of the power and there is an executive branch but the legislative has more power than the executive branch. In a presidential government the legislative and executive branches are both separate and they provide check and balances on each other powers
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