1. Imperialism This land is your land this land is my land…Not so fast on that first part…

3. Imperialism What is it? What fueled it?

4. Reasons for Imperialism Need for Raw Materials Prestige and Greatness Racism- Social Darwinism and White Man’s Burden

5. Industrial Revolution Source for Raw Materials Markets for Finished Goods European Nationalism Missionary Activity Military & Naval Bases European Motives For Colonization Places to Dump Unwanted/ Excess Popul. Soc. & Eco. Opportunities Humanitarian Reasons European Racism “White Man’s Burden” Social Darwinism

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

8. The “White Man’s Burden”?

9. Types of Imperialistic Rule What are the two main countries? Direct Rule vs. Indirect Rule

10. Types of Imperialistic Rule Colony Protectorate Sphere of Influence Economic Imperialism

11. Why imperialism succeeded? Modern Weapons Modern means of transportation Quinine

12. Positive effects Reduced local warfare Improved infrastructure Economic growth

13. Negative effects Lost Control and independence Brought in diseases Loss of culture Civil wars- after Europeans leave

14. Africa The Dark Continent 1841- Dr. David Livingston 1871- Henry Stanley Colonization fueled by Belgium and Leopold II- Congo

15. Where Is Dr. Livingstone? Dr. David Livingstone Doctor Livingstone, I Presume? Sir Henry Morton Stanley

18. Victoria Falls

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

20. Africa in the 1880s

21. The Congo Free State or The Belgian Congo

22. King Leopold II: (r. 1865 – 1909)

24. Harvesting Rubber

25. Punishing “Lazy” Workers

26. 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

27. Belgium’s Stranglehold on the Congo

28. The Berlin Conference – 1884-85 1914 – Liberia and Ethiopia

30. Berlin Conference of 1884-1885

32. Africa in 1914

33. South Africa Boers- 1600 Cecil Rhodes- Rhodesia British and Zulu Wars- 1887

34. Dutch Landing in 1652

35. Boers Clash With the Xhosa Tribes Boer Farmer

36. The Great Trek, 1836-38 Afrikaners

37. Diamond Mines Raw Diamonds

38. Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

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

40. Paul Kruger (1825-1904)

41. 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

42. The Boar War 1899-1902  Commandos  Concentration Camps

44. The Boer War: 1899 - 1902 The Boers The British

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

47. Suez Canal Ottomans lose territory Egypt- Muhammad Ali- British Suez Canal- 1869

51. India 1600s British East India Company Coffee, Tea, Cotton, Opium “Crown Jewel” Sepoy Rebellion 1857 Gandhi

55. Asia Britain takes Singapore, Burma France takes Indochina- Vietnam Siam/Thailand US- Philippines- Spanish America War 1898

56. American Imperialism

57. China Opium Wars- 1840s Hong Kong Extraterritoriality Open Door Policy- 1899 Boxer Rebellion-1900

58. The Open Door Policy