1. “The Quest for Empire” Analyzing Imperial Motives

2. Pair-Share
What would be some reasons why a country would want to imperialize (take-over) another?

3. Standard
Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (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).

4. Objective
Students will be able to describe the imperial motives by analyzing placards.

5. Instructions
Get with your Big Ben appointment, desks side-by-side, two feet apart from other partners.
On your worksheet: Analyzing Imperial Motives and draw a simple symbol to represent each motive.
Pick up ONE placard and complete the worksheet.
Let’s do one together…

6. Placard A: Open shaft mining at Kimberley, South Africa, in 1872

7. Placard B: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925

8. Placard C: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

9. Placard D: Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882

10. Placard E: Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in Southe Africa 1860

11. Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr
Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration

12. Placard G: An advertisement for Pear’s Soap from the 1890’s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden in 1899.

13. Placard H: Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 1888

14. Placard I: British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers, and the poem The Partition of China, 1897

15. Placard J: Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

16. Placard K: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

17. Placard L: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890’s.

18. Placard M: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus,” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892

19. Placard N: Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingston

20. Placard O: An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870.

21. Wrap-Up

22. Locations of Imperialism
Using the map, answer the following
Questions:
Which European countries appear to
Control the largest empires?
2. Which countries controlled the least?
3. What might be the result of unequal
possession of colonies?
4. How was the non-European world affected by imperialism?