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Bell Ringer

Bell Ringer. What idea is being depicted in the cartoon below? Who is represented and what is happening? What do you think the cartoonist’s opinion of imperialism is? (Answer on a piece of paper to turn in) . White Man’s Burden Review.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. Bell Ringer What idea is being depicted in the cartoon below? Who is represented and what is happening? What do you think the cartoonist’s opinion of imperialism is? (Answer on a piece of paper to turn in)

  2. White Man’s Burden Review • 1. According to Kipling, and in your own words, what was the "White Man’s Burden"? • 2. What reward did Kipling suggest the "White Man" gets for carrying his "burden"? • 3. Who did Kipling think would read his poem? What do you think that this audience might have said in response to it?

  3. Things to know: • Boers • Boer War • Berlin Conference • King Leopold • Elite

  4. The Boer War • Boers- Dutch farmers who fought the Zulu tribe. • Boer Wars- Wars fought between the Dutch and the British over diamonds and gold.

  5. Africa: Berlin Conference • Tensions among the European powers seeking African colonies led to the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885) • Berlin Conference- • Conference devising rules for the colonization of Africa. • Ethiopia and Liberia are spaired

  6. Later Problems • The arbitrary boundaries of the Berlin Conference did not take into consideration the natural divisions of the African people (religion, culture, language, ethnicity, etc) • The invention of rigid grouping of different groups and the establishment of artificial tribal boundaries became one of the greatest obstacles to nation building and stability in much of Africa during the 20th Century

  7. Elites Arise • Elite- Western Educated, upper-class Africans.

  8. King Leopold’s Ghost King Leopold II -Established the Congo Free State in the 1870s.

  9. Belgian Congo

  10. Atrocities in the Belgian Congo

  11. Political Cartoons

  12. Quotes • “Imprisoning 60 women and putting them in chains, where all but five died of starvation.” • This man himself, when I visited him in Boma goal, in March, 1901, said that more than 100 women and children had died of starvation at his hands, but that the responsibility was due to his superiors’ orders and neglect.” • Obedience??

  13. Chart Questions • Imperialism Chart Questions

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