1. Scramble for Africa

2. Industrial Powers race to colonies

3. Euro contact increases
Burton & Nile
Livingstone explorer & missionary

4. Industrial Powers race to colonies
AFRICA
Christian Missionaries were the first “explorers” of Africa’s interior
Belgium sent representatives to negotiate with African chiefs
In the 1870s, European powers looked to fully colonize Africa. The map shows how Imperialist nations divided the continent.

5. AFRICA Suez Canal Built in 1869 w/French $
Connected Red & Mediterranean Sea
Egypt needed $ & sold their share to England
Egyptians grew angry & rebelled over foreign presence
1882  Led to Egypt becoming a protectorate
Built in 1869
w/French $

6. British settlers continued to move north & on Dutch controlled land
AFRICA
Boer War
Causes
England v. Dutch Farmers
British settlers in Dutch colonies outnumbered Boers
gained control of area & British outlawed slavery
Boers founded Transvaal & Orange Free State
Diamonds were discovered in the Boers
British settlers continued to move north & on Dutch controlled land

7. England v. Dutch Farmers
AFRICA
Boer War
Outcomes
England v. Dutch Farmers
Resistance & guerilla warfare
British arrested & imprisoned Boers
Orange Free State & Transvaal became part of British Africa
Created the Union of South Africa
From Cape to Cairo

8. Berlin Conference Free state & trade in Congo
Prohibition of slave trade
If claim land, need est gov offices

10. Liberia & Ethiopia = only independent African Nations
The Scramble for Africa
Liberia & Ethiopia = only independent African Nations

11. Scars left on Africa Problems btwn African tribes
Forced ethnic groups into same nation
Destroyed African culture
Segregation & class system
Still: corruption, instability, violence & authoritative regimes are common

12. Whose Next?