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Journalist + Traveled to West Africa.

Journalist + Traveled to West Africa. ( 1899) Poem = The White Man’s Burden  summarized view of duties of imperial nations. View = Considered Imperialism to be beneficial to Africans . Building Overseas Empires.

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Journalist + Traveled to West Africa.

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  1. Journalist + Traveled to West Africa. (1899) Poem = The White Man’s Burden  summarized view of duties of imperial nations. View = Considered Imperialism to be beneficial to Africans.

  2. Building Overseas Empires • Great Britain + other Western Countries = Built overseas empires in late 1800s Industrial Revolution Transformed the West.

  3. Motives DrivingThe NewImperialism • Imperialism the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. • Imperialism did not begin in the 1800s = European States established colonies after 1492  Americas + South Asia + Coasts of Africa + China.

  4. Economic Interests Spur Expansion: • Manufacturers= wanted • additional access to natural • resources • rubber + petroleum + • markets of consumers to • sell manufactured goods. • Bankers= sought ventures to invest their profits. • Colonies = offer valuable outlet for Europe’s growing • population.

  5. Humanitarian andReligious Goals: Missionaries + Doctors + Colonial Officials Believed = Duty spread blessings of Western Civilization.

  6. Applying Social Darwinism: Motivation = behind West’s civilizing mission  growing sense of Racial Superiority. Applied Darwin’s ideas = Natural Selection + Survival of Fittest Human Societies. Argued that European races = superior to all others • imperial domination of weaker races • was nature’s way of improving the human species.

  7. The Rapid Spread ofWesternImperialism (1870 – 1914) Imperialist Nations = gained control over much of the world found favor with all classes (Bankers + Manufacturers + Workers

  8. Forms of Imperial Rule French = practiced direct rule sent officials + soldiers from France to administer colonies. Goal was to impose French Culture + turn them into French Provinces. British = practiced indirect rule used Sultans, Chiefs or other local rulers + encouraged children of local ruling class to get education in Britain

  9. Sphere of Influence- area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges.

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