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European Motives For Colonization

European Nationalism. Missionaries/Humanitarian. Belgium’s Congo Takeover. Military/Navy Bases. Markets. Resources. Events of the 1800’s: Suez Canal!. Industrial Revolution. European Motives For Colonization. Explorations of the African interior by Livingstone and Stanley.

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European Motives For Colonization

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  1. European Nationalism Missionaries/Humanitarian Belgium’s Congo Takeover Military/Navy Bases Markets Resources Events of the 1800’s: Suez Canal! Industrial Revolution European Motives For Colonization Explorations of the African interior by Livingstone and Stanley Paternalism Discovery of Gold/diamonds White Man’s Burden Racism Social Darwinism Place to dump “undesirables”

  2. European Motives For Colonization

  3. Terms to Know • Imperialism • Social Darwinism • White Man’s Burden • Berlin Conference • Boer War • Zulu • Congo • Assimilation • Paternalism • Menelik II • King Leopold II • Henry Stanley • Dr. David Livingston Imperialism in Africa Notes Draw a political cartoon representing The significance of the Berlin Conference Why colonization Was easier after 1800 Obstacles To colonization Before 1800 Positive effects Of Imperialism Negative effects Of Imperialism

  4. Name____________________per____Date__________ • Imperialism assignment: • Select one of the sources from page 785 to write an OPVL on…(we will share these as a class) • O--- • P--- • V— • L— • Compare that source with the other three sources. What generalizations can be made about imperialism? • Create a chart which compares the ways in which European nations differed in their methods of imperialism. • For each nation, give a description of their methods as well as an example AND whether that example was • successful or not. (Do not simply copy the chart on page 780, create your own interpretation as you read) • To what extent were African resistance movements of the 1800’s successful at deterring Europeans? Provide • examples to defend your answer. • 5. Write a paragraph using the vocabulary words from your notes on Imperialism (you may use the back)

  5. European Colonialism in Africa Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  6. African Trade [15c-17c]

  7. Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

  8. European Explorers in Africa 19c  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

  9. Africa 1890

  10. Africa in 1914

  11. 1. Where Is Dr. Livingstone? DoctorLivingstone,I Presume? Sir Henry Morton Stanley Dr. David Livingstone

  12. Social Darwinism

  13. The “White Man’s Burden” Rudyard Kipling

  14. The “White Man’s Burden”?

  15. The Belgian Congo: "King Leopold's Ghost"

  16. The Congo Free State orThe Belgian Congo

  17. King Leopold II:(r. 1865 – 1909)

  18. Harvesting Rubber

  19. Punishing “Lazy” Workers

  20. 5-8 Million Victims! (50% of Popul.) It is blood-curdling to see them (the soldiers) returning with the hands of the slain, and to find the hands of young children amongst the bigger ones evidencing their bravery...The rubber from this district has cost hundreds of lives, and the scenes I have witnessed, while unable to help the oppressed, have been almost enough to make me wish I were dead... This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the natives were to rise and sweep every white person on the Upper Congo into eternity, there would still be left a fearful balance to their credit. -- Belgian Official

  21. Belgium’s Stranglehold on the Congo

  22. Leopold’s Conscience??

  23. Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 Another point of view? 

  24. Berlin Conference of1884-1885

  25. European Colonization/Decolonization Patterns Berlin Conference of 1884-85

  26. Leopold Defends Himself in Paris, 1903

  27. The Struggle For South Africa

  28. Dutch Landing in 1652

  29. Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

  30. Boers Clash With the Xhosa Tribes Boer Farmer

  31. The Great Trek, 1836-38 Afrikaners

  32. Diamond Mines Raw Diamonds

  33. The Struggle for South Africa

  34. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) “The Colossus of Rhodes”

  35. Uncle Sam: “The Colossusof the Pacific” (A Parody)

  36. Paul Kruger (1825-1904)

  37. Boer-British Tensions Increase • 1877 – Britain annexed the Transvaal. • 1883 – Boers fought British in the Transvaal and regained its independence. - Paul Kruger becomes President. • 1880s – Gold discovered in the Transvaal

  38. The Boer War: 1899 - 1900 The British The Boers

  39. A Future British Prime Minister British Boer War Correspondent, Winston Churchill

  40. The Struggle for South Africa

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