Fantabulous Friday, March 14 th

1. Fantabulous Friday, March 14th • Take your seat • Take out your notebook • Take out your warm-ups Warm-Up What is Imperialism? How does it reflect the values and the technological advances of the La Belle Époque era? 1 paragraph,]

2. Agenda • Warm-Up • Focus Notes: “The Scramble for Africa” • Homework: • Imperialism Terms • Finish Ch. 23/24 notebook and women's rights timeline – both Due Monday

3. Motives for European Imperialism

4. Today’s Standard 10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism... What were the motivations behind European Imperialism from 1850-1914. Essential Question

5. Motives Driving the New Imperialism • Economic interests • Imperialism and Industrialization are inseparable • Industrialization – more access to natural resources • Ex: rubber petroleum, manganese, palm oil • Created markets to sell products on = $$$ to better Euro. economies

6. Motives Continued 2. Political and Military • More Colonies = POWER • Nationalism – when one European country began expanding others tried to stop them, by controlling land around them • Steam-powered ships and naval vessels needed bases to take on coal and supplies • Industrial countries seized land for this

7. Motives Continued 3. Humanitarian and Religious goals • Genuine concern for their “little brothers” beyond the seas • Missionaries began taking the Christian religion to new areas • “White Man’s Burden” • Idea that it was the white mans responsibility to take civilization to the rest of the world • Examples: • Medicine • Law • Christianity

8. Motives Continued 4. Social Darwinism & Racism • Growing sense of racial superiority • Applied Darwin's “survival of the fittest” to human societies • European races were seen as being superior to others • European imperial domination of weaker races was natures way of improving the human species • Millions of non-westerners (Europeans) were robbed of their cultural heritage. Europeans Everyone Else

9. Marvelous Monday, March 17th • Take your seat • Take out your notebook • Take out your warm-ups Timed Writing Analyze the causes of New Imperialism from 1850 – 1914. As much of an essay as possible

10. Agenda • Warm-Up • Focus Notes: “The Scramble for Africa” • Homework: • Read, mark and annotate The White Man’s Burden by Kipling. • Read pages 826-838 and complete the Imperialism Chart – this will go in your notebook

11. The Scramble For Africa

12. Today’s Standard 10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism... How did the European’s “break into” Africa and what were the positive and negative effects of this colonization? Essential Question

13. African Trade [15c-17c]

14. Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

15. EuropeanNationalism Source for Raw Materials MissionaryActivity Industrial Revolution European Motives For Colonization Markets forFinishedGoods Military& NavalBases SocialDarwinism EuropeanRacism Places toDumpUnwanted/Excess Popul. HumanitarianReasons Soc. & Eco.Opportunities “WhiteMan’sBurden”

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

17. 19c Mysteries & Adventures

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

19. European Explorations in mid-19c:“The Scramble for Africa”

20. 2. What is the Source of the Nile? Sir Richard Burton John Speke

21. Africa in the 1880s

22. Africa in 1914

23. Social Darwinism

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

25. The “White Man’s Burden”?

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

27. The Congo Free State orThe Belgian Congo

28. King Leopold II:(r. 1865 – 1909)

29. Harvesting Rubber

30. Punishing “Lazy” Workers

31. 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

32. Belgium’s Stranglehold on the Congo

33. Africa in 1914

34. Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 • “The Great African Pie” • European leaders from all major Imperial powers attend • Goal – to divide Africa and avoid European Conflict • Developed General Rules • Free Trade • Must have gov’t office and clear boundaries

35. Berlin Conference of1884-1885

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

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

38. The Struggle For South Africa

39. Dutch Landing in 1652

40. Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

41. Boers Clash With the Xhosa Tribes Boer Farmer

42. The Great Trek, 1836-38 Afrikaners

43. Diamond Mines Raw Diamonds

44. Paul Kruger (1825-1904)

45. 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

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

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

48. The Struggle for South Africa