1. Fantabulous Friday, March 14th
Take your seat
Take out your notebook
Take out your warm-ups
Warm-Up
What is Imperialism? How does it reflect the values and the technological advances of the La Belle Époque era?
1 paragraph,]

2. Agenda Warm-Up Focus Notes: “The Scramble for Africa” Homework:
Imperialism Terms
Finish Ch. 23/24 notebook and women's rights timeline – both Due Monday

3. Motives for
European
Imperialism

4. Today’s Standard Essential Question
10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism...
What were the motivations behind European Imperialism from
Essential Question

5. Motives Driving the New Imperialism
Economic interests
Imperialism and Industrialization are inseparable
Industrialization – more access to natural resources
Ex: rubber petroleum, manganese, palm oil
Created markets to sell products on = $$$ to better Euro. economies

6. 2. Political and Military
Motives Continued
2. Political and Military
More Colonies = POWER
Nationalism – when one European country began expanding others tried to stop them, by controlling land around them
Steam-powered ships and naval vessels needed bases to take on coal and supplies
Industrial countries seized land for this

7. 3. Humanitarian and Religious goals
Motives Continued
3. Humanitarian and Religious goals
Genuine concern for their “little brothers” beyond the seas
Missionaries began taking the Christian religion to new areas
“White Man’s Burden”
Idea that it was the white mans responsibility to take civilization to the rest of the world
Examples:
Medicine
Law
Christianity

8. 4. Social Darwinism & Racism
Motives Continued
4. Social Darwinism & Racism
Growing sense of racial superiority
Applied Darwin's “survival of the fittest” to human societies
European races were seen as being superior to others
European imperial domination of weaker races was natures way of improving the human species
Millions of non-westerners (Europeans) were robbed of their cultural heritage.
Europeans
Everyone Else

9. Marvelous Monday, March 17th
Take your seat
Take out your notebook
Take out your warm-ups
Timed Writing
Analyze the causes of New Imperialism from 1850 – 1914.
As much of an essay as possible

10. Agenda Warm-Up Focus Notes: “The Scramble for Africa” Homework:
Read, mark and annotate The White Man’s Burden by Kipling.
Read pages and complete the Imperialism Chart – this will go in your notebook

11. The Scramble
For Africa

12. Today’s Standard Essential Question
10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism...
How did the European’s “break into” Africa and what were the positive and negative effects of this colonization?
Essential Question

13. African Trade [15c-17c]

14. Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

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

16. European Explorers in Africa
19c  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

17. 19c
Mysteries
& Adventures

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

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

20. 2. What is the Source of the Nile?
Sir Richard Burton
John Speke

21. Africa
in the
1880s

22. Africa in
1914

23. Social Darwinism

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

25. The “White Man’s Burden”?

26. The Belgian Congo:
"King Leopold's
Ghost"

27. The Congo Free State or The Belgian Congo

28. King Leopold II: (r – 1909)

29. Harvesting Rubber

30. Punishing “Lazy” Workers

31. 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

32. Belgium’s Stranglehold on the Congo

33. Africa in
1914

34. Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 “The Great African Pie”
European leaders from all major Imperial powers attend
Goal – to divide Africa and avoid European Conflict
Developed General Rules
Free Trade
Must have gov’t office and clear boundaries

35. Berlin Conference of

36. “The Colossus of Rhodes”
Cecil Rhodes ( )
“The Colossus of Rhodes”

37. Uncle Sam: “The Colossus of the Pacific” (A Parody)

38. The Struggle
For
South Africa

39. Dutch Landing in 1652

40. Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

41. Boers Clash With the Xhosa Tribes
Boer Farmer

42. The Great Trek,
Afrikaners

43. Diamond Mines
Raw Diamonds

44. Paul Kruger ( )

45. 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

46. The Boer War:
The British
The Boers

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

48. The Struggle for South Africa