“The Quest for Empire” Analyzing Imperial Motives

Pair-Share What would be some reasons why a country would want to imperialize (take-over) another?

Standard 10.4.1 Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).

Objective Students will be able to describe the imperial motives by analyzing placards.

Instructions Get with your Big Ben appointment, desks side-by-side, two feet apart from other partners. On your worksheet: Analyzing Imperial Motives and draw a simple symbol to represent each motive. Pick up ONE placard and complete the worksheet. Let’s do one together…

Placard A: Open shaft mining at Kimberley, South Africa, in 1872

Placard B: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925

Placard C: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

Placard D: Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882

Placard E: Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in Southe Africa 1860

Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration

Placard G: An advertisement for Pear’s Soap from the 1890’s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden in 1899.

Placard H: Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 1888

Placard I: British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers, and the poem The Partition of China, 1897

Placard J: Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

Placard K: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

Placard L: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890’s.

Placard M: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus,” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892

Placard N: Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingston

Placard O: An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870.

Wrap-Up

Locations of Imperialism Using the map, answer the following Questions: Which European countries appear to Control the largest empires? 2. Which countries controlled the least? 3. What might be the result of unequal possession of colonies? 4. How was the non-European world affected by imperialism?