1. By Brady Sprague

2.  Pro/Con of Imperialism  Background Information  Effects of Imperialism  Western Powers Involved  Indigenous Response  Results of Independence

3.  Modern developments reach the region: roads, mechanized farming, steam power, railroads, medical clinics etc.  Increase in Economic and Political power for Great Britain, and White settlers  Missions and their schools begin to educated more children of the region

4.  African states lose sovereignty  Africans subjected to unfair taxation  Africans forced off their lands on to reserves or mine camps, families broken apart  Increase in prostitution and STD spread  Segregation and Oppression develops  War between competing colonial powers (Great Britain and the Netherlands)

5.  Overall effects of Imperialism positive for the rulers, negative for the ruled  Imperialism will reformat the African social pyramid, placing white settlers on top  Imperialism will create new governments run by white European settlers with armies to keep order, oppressing indigenous populations.  Imperialism will empower western Europe and continue to feed the British Empire

6.  South Africa was the new “El Dorado”, having many natural resources: Good farmland, pastures, diamonds, coal, copper, iron ore and gold.  Inhabited by African Pastoralists for its good farmland for centuries.

7.  Modern technologies are brought to South Africa  South Africa is today stable because of investment from the British & Dutch  Apartheid in South Africa is a direct result of the racism and oppression stemming from Imperialism

8.  Descendents of the Dutch (or Boers) came throughout the 19 th Century  British settlers arrived later in the Century.  Eventually leads to the Boer war, British forces victorious  Competition over natural resources  British government expected settlers to manage their own affairs (Indirect Rule)

9.  Some welcomed Europeans as allies, worked in service of European firms, and were rewarded with schools, roads and clinics  Others resisted fiercely, especially Muslims who fought Jihads, all of who were eventually defeated.

10.  South Africa became a dominion of Great Britain and formed the Union of South Africa on May 31 st, 1910, becoming effectively independent  South Africa became truly Independent of British rule after the passage of the Statute of Westminster on the 11 th of December, 1931  South Africa became a republic the 31 st of May, 1961

11.  Social oppression continued to exist under Apartheid, where the Black majority was oppressed by the white minority  South Africa eventually became a functioning republic  South Africa has been economically stable because of its many natural resources