A Brady Sprague Powerpoint

 Pro/Con of Imperialism  Background Information  Effects of Imperialism  Western Powers Involved  Indigenous Response  Results of Independence

 Increase in the power of Great Britian, France and Ethiopia  Modernization of Military in Ethiopia and Egypt  600% increase in Egyptian trade, postal service, 800 miles of rail lines, doubled cotton exports and thrity-fold revenue increases  Explorers map the inner continent of Africa, headwaters or rivers found  Freed slaves at British Sierra Leone become educated and distinguished

 Egypt becomes paritally occupied by European powers after debts cannot be repaid  Resistence in Algeria to the French invasion leads to thirty years of war in the region

 Northern Muslim Africa became rapidly modernized, becoming at one point the center stage for world cotton exports.  Gold exports increase to combat falling slave trade.  Crimean war begins to divy up Ottoman territory

 Egypt began its rapid modernization to resist foreign invaders, and the debts of this led to partial occupation  Ethiopia, a Christian state modernized to reclaim lands lost to Muslims  Powerful African kings resisted aboltionism in British colonies because of the profit in the slave trade

 Ottoman Empire becomes smaller, and the first constitutioned Muslim state  The defeat of the Russian Empire in the Crimen war will lead to its rapid industiralization  Modernization throughout northern Africa  Direct rule from Britian and France in holdings (Algeria, parts of Egypt)

 French forces invade Algeria in 1830  British invade Ethiopia, but later withdraw  Both France Britian invade and partially occupy Egypt after debts owed to European investors cannot be repaid  Russia fights Crimean war over Ottoman lands against Britian and France

 Fierce resistence came from states like Algeria, where Muslim Holy man Abd Al-Qadir began a 30 year resistence movement  Egyptian trade with the west grows 600%

 In 1954 Algeria led a guerilla campaign and secured indpendence  Alegeria is now part of OPEC and the Arab League, exporting oil for profit  Egypt became independent of Great Britian on the 22 nd of Feburary, 1922 after constant revolting from the people.  Egypt is now the permadent center of the Arab League at Cairo