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IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA

IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA. IMPERIALISM:Don’t write. IMPERIALISM - extending a nation’s power over other lands. Africa was seen as new sources of things Euro wanted such as: Raw materials & resources 2.new markets to sell goods 3. direct control of markets.

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IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA

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  1. IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA

  2. IMPERIALISM:Don’t write • IMPERIALISM- extending a nation’s power over other lands.

  3. Africa was seen as new sources of things Euro wanted such as: • Raw materials & resources 2.new markets to sell goods 3. direct control of markets

  4. 4.Rivalries w/ other nations- 5. Social Darwinism: survival of the fittest & racist beliefs

  5. 6. White Man’sBurden”-belief that European’s had a responsibility to civilize primitive people 7. spread Christianity

  6. EMPIRE BUILDING IN AFRICA: Slave trade banned by 1890s so look to other forms of trade.

  7. Euro sold textiles & manufactured goods in exchange for resources such as peanuts, timber, palm oil.

  8. DESIRE FOR RESOURCES • DON’T WRITE • Euros move in. • 1874 Great Britain ANNEXES- (incorporates a country w/in a state) Gold Coast.

  9. IMPERIALISM • DON’T WRITE • Gold Coast 1st colony • Brits set up PROTECTORATE (must depend on another govt) in Nigeria.

  10. DON”T WRITE!!! • France takes Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco & Fr. West Africa • Germany gets Togo, Cameroon, German SW Africa & Ger. E. Africa.

  11. AFRICA FALLS • DON’T WRITE! Dutch(Boers) defeat Zulus & create white run Union of South Africa. • Italy fails in Ethiopia.

  12. MRS. BARNES WHEN SHE WAKES UP

  13. EUROPE DIVIDES AFRICA: DON’T WRITE • Ger, Br, Port, Belgium claim same land. • Meet at Berlin Conference in 1884 & divide up Africa. • No African reps

  14. EXPLORATION: DON’T WRITE! • Many explorers come to Africa including David Livingston who gets lost. • Is found by journalist Henry Stanley who talks Leopold II of Belgium into colonizing Congo.

  15. Egypt part of Ottoman Empire until MUHAMMAD ALI took over & est separate Egyptian state. • Modernized army, reformed schools, created industries.

  16. SUEZ CANAL Ferdinand de Lesseps designs SUEZCANAL in 1864 to connect Red Sea to Mediterranean Sea for faster shipping

  17. SUEZ CANAL • Brits buy out Egypt’s share of canal & then take over Egypt

  18. DIRECT RULE • France used DIRECT RULE-local officials removed from power & replaced w/ new set of officials from mother country

  19. INDIRECT RULE • Brits used INDIRECT RULE- local rulers kept positions of power & followed colonizer’s rules. • Kept local customs, but caused tension

  20. MRS. BARNES & MR BARNES ON THEIR WEDDING DAY

  21. CHANGES IN AFRICA • 1. Colonizers created new govts (direct or indirect) • 2. Educated people in colonizers language & religion • 3. New class of leaders educated in colonial schools & learn western ideas

  22. changes • 4. many different ethnic groups forced together 5. Desire for nationalism grew with lost freedoms 6. Became labor to produce raw materials

  23. BRITISH IN INDIA

  24. DON’T WRITE! • Brits powerful & move into India. • British East India Trading Company given power by govt to help w/ military & political affairs.

  25. BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY • BETC wants resources & new markets

  26. SEPOY REBELLION • BETC had own soldiers & hired Indians (Sepoys) to defend company interests, but Sepoys refused orders & rebel

  27. Thought bullets were greased in cow & pig fat ( Sepoys were Hindu or Muslim & this was against beliefs)

  28. SEPOY REBELLION • Revolt spreads, but fails b/c problems btw Hindu’s & Muslims

  29. QUEEN VICTORIA • BETC loses power & Br govt takes over • Queen Victoria becomes Empress

  30. Brit rules through a VICEROY-governor who represents monarch

  31. Benefits of Brit rule included: • order, stability, new school system, RRs, telegraphs, & trains for transportation of goods & people.

  32. Problems caused: • Manufactured goods destroy local industry • grow cotton, not food, • Brits get best jobs • No respect for culture • Corrupt tax collectors

  33. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS • Indian nationalists want reform & meet in 1885 to form Indian National Congress. • (educated in colonial schools)

  34. TAJ MAHAL

  35. INDIA NATIONAL CONGRESS • INC want share in governing process & Indian independence

  36. Hindu majority & Muslim minority. • Muslims want separate Muslim League. • Afraid Hindus will overrun all others.

  37. MOHANDA GANDHI • 1915- MohandasGandhi, lawyer • saw racism against Indians. • Wanted India’s independence.

  38. INDIAN INDEPENDENCE • Led marches & boycotts to get rid of GB. • used traditional Indian dress, language, seen as a spiritual leader • Helps get independence in 1947.

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