Negative Effects Of Latin American Colonization

The Europeans introduced forced labor, which was in essence, unpaid labor where any person, male, female or child, had to work on community projects. This did not allow them to make any money, which in some cases could make an entire family poor. When more and more of the population becomes poor, the general economy would become less because less money is being made.
Many negative effects were caused by decolonization. One economic negative effect was that when many nations became independent of European colonization, the Latin Americans had a terrible economy. As a result of the war to gain independence and not having the small nations unite together, all the newly created nations had a terrible economy. The war used up a lot of resources, thus, draining the colonies of their resources, leaving them very poor once they had gained their independence. Without any resources, the new countries became heavily dependent on foreign goods. Furthermore, because
India, specifically, had an internal conflict between two religions, Islam and Hinduism. This was first noticed at the beginning of the twentieth century when India’s All-India Muslim League was created as an opposition to the Indian National Congress. A majority of the Muslims lived by the Eastern and North Western parts of the nation. The Hindus primarily lived in the center and Eastern sides of the country. The areas which had a majority of Muslims separated from the rest of India, which contained primarily Hindus. Many citizens died because they were being forced out of their homes if they lived in the territory owned by the opposite religion. This entire issue weakened the previous Hindustan by splitting it up into two countries and also by killing many Muslims and Hindus, shrinking the population sizes of the new