Imperialism Motives & Justifications

Analyzing Motives of Imperialism GOAL: You will be analyzing written and visual artifacts depicting European motives for empire building in the late 19 th century.

Analyzing Motives of Imperialism ECONOMIC: POLITICAL: REGLIGIOUS: EXPLORATORY: IDEOLOGICAL:

Economic Motives of Imperialism ECONOMIC: – Make $$ – Control foreign trade – Discover new markets – Raw materials and cheap labor – Investments – Export technology.

Political Motives of Imperialism POLITICAL: – Gain power – Compete with other countries – Expand territory – Exercise military force – Gain prestige – Boost national pride & security

Religious Motives of Imperialism RELIGIOUS: – Spread Christianity – Spread European, American, and Western values and moral beliefs – Educate people from other cultures

Exploratory Motives of Imperialism EXPLORATORY: – Explore the “unknown” – Conduct scientific research – Medical searches/find medical remedies – Adventure – Investigate “unknown” cultures.

Ideological Motives of Imperialism IDEOLOGICAL: – Cultural values – Belief in Race superiority (racism) – Belief in duty to “civilize” people in other parts of the world – Belief that all great nations should have empires – Social Darwinish-“Survival of the Fittest”- only the strongest nations will survive.

Economic Motives of Imperialism ECONOMIC: – Make $$ – Control foreign trade – New markets – Raw materials and cheap labor – Investments – Export technology

PHOTO #1: Open-shaft diamond mining in Kimberly, South Africa, 1872

PHOTO #2: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, 1925

PHOTO #3: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

PHOTO #4: Quote from Henry Stanley in 1882

PHOTO #5: Africans bringing ivory to the wagon in South Africa, c. 1860

PHOTO #6: Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration

PHOTO #7: An advertisement for Pears’ Soap from the 1890s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden, written in 1899

PHOTO #8: Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

PHOTO #9: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

PHOTO #10: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s

PHOTO #11: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo” 1892

PHOTO #12: Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingstone