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AFRICA

AFRICA. Mr. Nicholson’s special notes presentation. Africa before Imperialism. Europeans look to Africa for raw materials Africa divided into hundreds of tribes and ethnic groups Africans kept Europeans out for 400 years. Europe Show Up. Dr. Livingstone Scottish Minister Explored Africa

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AFRICA

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  1. AFRICA Mr. Nicholson’s special notes presentation

  2. Africa before Imperialism • Europeans look to Africa for raw materials • Africa divided into hundreds of tribes and ethnic groups • Africans kept Europeans out for 400 years

  3. Europe Show Up • Dr. Livingstone • Scottish Minister • Explored Africa • Sent stories to England • Disappeared…. • H. M. Stanley • American hired to find Livingstone • “Dr. Livingstone I presume?” • Found him in 1871

  4. Belgium takes the Congo • Stanley is hired by the King of Belgium • King Leopold II • Explores territory and claims it for Belgium • The Congo is 80 times the size of Belgium • Leopold exploited the Africans through forced labor, taxation, and abuse • Rest of Europe joins in

  5. Forces enabling Imperialism • External and Internal forces contribute to Europe takeover of Africa • External – Europe’s advanced technology, machine guns, steamships, RR, cables. Cure for malaria • Internal – Variety of African cultures and low level of technology • Many countries wanted a piece of Africa

  6. The Berlin Conference 1884-1885 • Held by Otto von Bismark • 14 European countries meet to prevent war • Created rules for dividing up Africa • Show by map and occupy • Notify others in Europe • Start from coast and go inland • 1900 all of Africa taken except Ethiopia and Liberia • Ethiopia defeats Italy • Liberia started by American slaves

  7. Tensions Rise • Germany wants to control East and West • Britain wants North to South • Others are caught in between

  8. Fashoda Crisis • Britain controls Egypt and the Nile • Needs the Sudan • France also wants the Sudan • Both send in troops then France backs down • French people not happy with Britain

  9. Boer War • Dutch (Boers) take control of South Africa or Cape of Good Hope • British take over colony (1800s) • Cecil Rhodes • Englishmen who wants to build a railroad from Egypt to South Africa • Gets rich off diamond mines • Starts Rhode Scholarship • Creates country of Rhodesia

  10. More about the Boers • Boers upset at the British and blame them when outsiders try to take over their land • Boers defeated easily as British set fires that destroy the countryside • First modern “total” war = Boer War • African farmers left without homes and jobs • Have to work in the mines to survive • Europeans start to hate British

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