1. March 14, 2017
Agenda
• BE Brain Pop (4)
• Scramble for Africa (5)
• Colonialism Timeline (6)
• Weighing the Impact (7)
• CC Imperialism
Warm-up
• What are the 4 reasons to colonize and 1 thing that helped Europe get into Africa?
Homework: review today’s material

2. •Spread Christianity
•Get natural resources
•New markets
•Bragging rights
•Steam Ships
•Quinine medicine
•Maxim machine gun

3. Unit 11 Test
Friday March 31, 2017

4. Unit 11: Modern History of Africa
1.Unit 11 Standards
2.Warmup (3/13 –3/17)
3.Why Colonize?
4.BE BrainPop
5.Scramble for Africa
6.Colonialism Timeline
7.Weighing the Impact

5. BE BrainPop

6. Scramble for Africa

8. to move or climb over something quickly especially while also using your hands
: to move or act quickly to do, find, or get something often before someone else does
CONFLICT (Artificial Political Borders = Conflict)
The borders drawn by Europeans without regard to the people (Africans)

9. FRANCE
GREAT BRITIAN
Ruled as a slave colony by the Belgium King
Egypt –Sudan –British East Africa –Northern Rhodesia –Southern Rhodesia –Bechuanaland –South Africa –Sierra Leone –Gold Coast -Nigeria

10. Colonialism Timeline
Directions: Skim pages of the textbook to complete the entries on this timeline.
1400s and 1500s
1884
1945
Pan African Congress is organized.
Berlin conference divides Africa into European colonies
Europeans begin trading with Africans.
1500 –1800s:
As 1900s began
By end of the 1960s
12 million African slaves sent to Americas
Feelings of Nationalism arise among educated Africans
Most African colonies became independent

11. The Effects of Colonialism on Africa
Weighing the Impact
The Effects of Colonialism on Africa
Positive Impacts
Weight
Negative Impacts
Improved health care & education
Many forced into hard labor with low wages
Opened up trade to Europe
African leaders removed from power
Ended slavery
Lost control of natural resources
Improved transportation &
European settlers took the good land
Some went abroad for school and then
Not divided based on ethnic groups (artificial borders)
Created a culture of violence
Traditional African practices were criticized
Africans were not prepared for independence

12. CC Crash Course

13. Daily Closing
Who was the largest colonizer of Africa?