What information from this document might be useful if
you wanted to explain why the British supported
imperialism? Select all that apply.
I was in the East End of London yesterday and attended a
meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild
speeches, which were just a cry for "bread! bread!" and
on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became
more than ever convinced of the importance of
imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the social
problem, i.e., in order to save ... the United Kingdom
from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must
acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to
provide new markets for the goods produced in the
factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is
a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil
war, you must become imperialists.
-Cecil Rhodes,
1895
They wanted lands to settle the extra population.
They wanted to find better farmland to grow wheat
for bread.
They wanted new markets for English goods.
They wanted to avoid civil war.
They wanted new areas to build factories.