1. Sec 1 and 2 notes Growth Africa
Ch. 36 Imperialism
Sec 1 and 2 notes
Growth
Africa

2. Reasons Industrial Revolution
Industrialized nations need raw materials for factories (rubber, tin, )
New places to produce products
Food products (cocoa,tea,sugar)

3. Reasons Nationalism Country above self Superiority
“backwards” ppl
Everyone should be industrialized
Balance of power (keep up with other countries)
Spread Christianity
Kipling “White man’s burden”

4. Africa Before 1870 European powers stayed away Afraid of diseases
Missionaries and explores went in
Dr. David Livingston (Scottish)
Convert ppl to Christianity
End Arab slave trade of Africans
Wrote about his journeys
Hired by King Leopold II of Belgium to acquire land for his country
Took advantage of language barrier
Gained raw materials and wealth for Belgium in return for beads and cloth

5. Suez Canal Opened in 1869 Connect Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Built by Egyptians w/French $$
Egypt need $ sold shares to GB
GB becomes protectorate

6. Britain vS Boers Britain Boers
did not like GB, didn’t want to speak English, didn’t like GB ending slavery
Boers set up 2 independent states- Transvaal and Orange Free State
Diamonds and Gold brings new ppl
Become outnumbered force new ppl to pay heavy taxes
Germany
Gives ammo to support Boers
2yrs of guerrilla warfare till Boers wave the
Women and children imprisoned
Begin pushing south take over Sudan and make joint gov. w/Egypt
Move north towards Boers
Cecil Rhodes (PM of Cape Colony) not happy
English speaking empire
Built railroad increased British settlers
Rhodesia
After Boers surrender, English speaking Empire realized except for 1 German colony

7. Other European Empires
Everyone wants a
Spain and Portugal (Angola oldest colony in Africa) keep what they had
France makes lg Empire
Ethiopia and Liberia(Freed slaves from USA) only 2 independent areas
Italians take Eritrea
Try to take Ethiopia but the were defeated by King Menelik II