Motives For British Imperialism

1) Slavery began to decline in the 1800's because the British realized that it wasn't economically beneficial to them, although they could care less about the moral aspects of the situation. Because of the abolition of slavery, British didn't have to worry about taking or bring slaves from colonized lands, therefore, they could focus entirely on free trade.

2) He said that religion was not an aspect of imperialism, although I disagree, for changing or trying to change ones values and beliefs can strongly affect natives and colonists, and therefore it was a large aspect of imperialism.

3) Halstead believed that trade contributed to imperialism, while Cobden believed that the source of imperialism was the free market. Halstead's theory resembles the mercantilism in many ways.

4) Halstead said that the final motives for imperialism were colonization, competition for free markets and settlements.