1. CSSSS 10.4: The New Imperialismpp

2. 10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.
10.4.1
Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism (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).
10.4.2
Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
10.4.3
Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.
10.4.4
Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian) in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.

3. Intro to Imperialism

4. Why Imperialism?
Industrialization gave Europeans and some other powers the technology to take over the rest of the world more rapidly.
Gold and religion were still important motivations, but new motivations included
but now factories and societies wanted resources, new markets, and cheap sources of human labor.
Most of the world was taken over by imperialist powers by 1914.
Social Darwinism justified White takeover of other ethnic groups lands, resources, and even labor.

5. Imperialism:
When one nation controls the political, economic, or cultural life and/or territory of another nation or region.
mercantilism: taking foreign lands, starting colonies, forcing those colonies to only trade with the home empire.

6. CSSSS 10.4: The New Imperialismpp

7. Old Imperialist motivations (5) (think back to 7th grade)
Gold
Spread Christianity
Pearls
Perfume
Spice

8. And had small holdings in: Africa, China, (3)
Early Imperialism: Europeans, led by Spain and Portugal, controlled lands in:
South Asia, (3)
Cotton
Tea
Opium
The Americas (5)
Tobacco
Indigo
Sugar
Gold,
And had small holdings in:
Africa,
Slaves
China, (3)
Porcelain
Jade
Silk
The Western Pacific (3)
Whaling
Furs
Spices

9. New Imperialist motivations (10)
Spread Christianity
Manufacturers wanted resources and markets
Bankers and investors wanted investments
Room to send excess population from home empire
Bases for merchant and naval shipping (coal and supplies)
Land to prevent competing imperialists from growing
Prestige (importance) in owning more land than other imperialists
Superior technology
Paternalism
Social Darwinism

10. Two points of view in the Industrially powerful nations.
Anti-Imperialist: (minority at the time)
Some in the modern developed world regret what was done to the rest of the world.
No country has the right to take over another or tell it how to live.
Pro-Imperialist: (majority at the time)
others believed that
The world was there for the taking.
the rest of the world would benefit from Imperialist control and development.

11. Two Worlds Today; describe what you think they are.
Developed world:
rich, modern nations
Developing world:
struggling, modernizing nations

12. What made the rest of the world weak enough to be taken over? (3)
Declining civilizations with old technology (Middle East, India, China, and Africa)
Wars between peoples in regions like Africa
The slave trade in Africa and Asia

13. Imperialist Powers (12) use the maps in the imperialism sections
10 minutes
Write the name of the country, not the adjective
Don’t write names of colonies (lands owned by imperialists)

14. Imperialist Powers (12) use the maps in the imperialism sections
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Germany
Russia
Italy
Japan
United States
The Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Ottoman Empire (Turks)
Austria-Hungary

15. STIMULATING INTEREST
Europeans were attracted to Africa by the written accounts they read and heard from several groups: (3)
Explorers
Mungo Park and Richard Burton toured and mapped the Niger, Nile, and Congo Rivers
Missionaries
Christians of all kinds
set up:
Schools
Churches
Medical clinics
Fought the slave trade
Adventure writers
Wrote novels and pulp stories about heroes in “darkest Africa”.
Many had never been to Africa.

16. Paternalism: "The ____________ Burden“ -- Rudyard Kipling White Man's
Imperialist attitude that it was the duty of the superior White race to guide and protect the “childish”, “savage”, lesser, “coloured” peoples of the world.
Europeans believed that cultures that did not “westernize” had to be “beaten down” and shown the right way to behave,
just as a father punishes an uncooperative child.

17. Biological barriers broken by science
_________________ had protected Africans from an all-out European invasion,
Malaria
but European science found _______ in South America.
quinine
It reduced the effects of malaria and Europeans were able to invade, conquer, and develop many African lands at will.

18. Protectorate
A foreign land whose local rulers appeared to be free and in control
Was really run by a foreign power
Britain ran Egypt this way
US ran Cuba this way

19. Sphere of Influence
A foreign power only takes control of part of a nation.
Usually the profitable or strategic part
Britain and others would take control of China this way.

20. homework
Make sure Gandhi DVD is queued up

21. p. 287 WE Question: EC: Is it pro or anti-imperialism? Explain
New market, place for investment
To be exploited
EC: Is it pro or anti-imperialism? Explain
Pro
Advertising to get Europeans to settle in and develop African lands and resources.

22. Standards Check, p. 287 Question: Economic motives
Military and political missions
Humanitarian and religious reasons
Social Darwinist reasons

23. Comparing Viewpoints, p. 288
Favor
English are superior race
Oppose
The lands belong to the inhabitants, who have an established way of life.

24. Image, p. 288
Question:
They had superior weapons

25. Standards Check, p. 289 Question:
Westerners had stronger economies, governments, and technology
Also the necessary manpower.

26. Standards Check, p. 289 Britain
Indirect Rule; through a local ruling class
France
Direct Rule

27. Did anyone fight back?
Use the current and next chapter to cite colonial resistance efforts, peaceful or violent. Answer all the “wh” questions (who, what, when, where, why and how.)
One for each region/nation below:
Africa
Muslim regions
India
China
Japan
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Canada, Australia, New Zealand

28. Brief Response
Did the New Imperialists have the right to take over foreign lands and denying the freedom of hundreds of millions of people there?