Imperialism In Africa

1. IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA

2. IMPERIALISM
•IMPERIALISM
- extending a
nation’s
power over
other lands.

3. •Africa seen as new
sources of things Euro
wanted such as:
1. Raw materials
2.new markets to sell
goods
3. direct control of
markets

4. 4.Rivalries w/
other nations-
5. Social
Darwinism:
survival of
the fittest &
racist beliefs

5. 6. White Man’s
Burden”- belief
that
European’s had
a responsibility
to civilize
primitive
people
7. spread
Christianity

6. EMPIRE BUILDING IN
AFRICA:
Slave trade
banned by
1890s so look
to other
forms of trade.

7. •Euro sold
textiles &
manufactured
goods in
exchange for
resources
such as
peanuts,
timber, palm
oil.

8. DESIRE FOR RESOURCES
•DON’T WRITE
•Euros move in.
•1874 Great
Britain
ANNEXES-
(incorporates a
country w/in a
state) Gold
Coast.

9. IMPERIAL
ISM
•DON’T WRITE
•Gold Coast 1
st
colony
•Brits set up
PROTECTORATE (must
depend on another govt)
in Nigeria.

10. •DON”T WRITE!!!
•France takes
Algeria, Tunisia &
Morocco & Fr. West
Africa
•Germany gets Togo,
Cameroon, German
SW Africa & Ger. E.
Africa.

11. AFRICA FALLS
•DON’T WRITE!
Dutch(Boers)
defeat Zulus &
create white
run Union of
South Africa.
• Italy fails in
Ethiopia.

12. MRS. BARNES
WHEN SHE WAKES
UP

13. EUROPE DIVIDES
AFRICA: DON’T
WRITE
•Ger, Br, Port,
Belgium claim
same land.
•Meet at Berlin
Conference in
1884 & divide
up Africa.
•No African reps

15. EXPLORATION: DON’T WRITE!
•Many explorers come to
Africa including David
Livingston who gets lost.
•Is found by journalist
Henry Stanley who
talks Leopold II of
Belgium into
colonizing Congo.

16. •Egypt part of Ottoman
Empire until
MUHAMMAD ALI took
over & est separate
Egyptian state.
•Modernized army,
reformed schools,
created industries.

17. SUEZ CANAL
Ferdinand de
Lesseps
designs SUEZ
CANAL in 1864
to connect Red
Sea to
Mediterranean
Sea for faster
shipping

18. SUEZ CANAL
•Brits buy
out Egypt’s
share of
canal &
then take
over Egypt

19. DIRECT RULE
•France used
DIRECT RULE-
local officials
removed from
power &
replaced w/
new set of
officials from
mother country

20. INDIRECT RULE
•Brits used INDIRECT RULE-
local rulers kept positions
of power & followed
colonizer’s rules.
•Kept local customs,
but caused
tension

21. MRS. BARNES & MR
BARNES ON THEIR
WEDDING DAY

22. CHANGES IN AFRICA
•1. Colonizers created new
govts (direct or indirect)
•2. Educated people in
colonizers language &
religion
•3. New class of leaders
educated in colonial
schools & learn western
ideas

23. changes
•4. many different ethnic
groups forced together
5. Desire for nationalism
grew with lost freedoms
6. Became labor to
produce raw materials

24. BRITISH IN INDIA

25. •DON’T WRITE!
•Brits powerful &
move into India.
•British East India
Trading Company
given power by
govt to help w/
military &
political affairs.

26. BRITISH
EAST INDIA
COMPANY
•BETC
wants
resources
& new
markets

27. SEPOY
REBELLION
•BETC had own soldiers &
hired Indians (Sepoys)
to defend company
interests,
but Sepoys
refused orders
& rebel

28. •Thought bullets were
greased in cow & pig fat
( Sepoys were Hindu or
Muslim & this was
against beliefs)

29. SEPOY REBELLION
•Revolt
spreads,
but fails b/c
problems
btw
Hindu’s &
Muslims

30. QUEEN
VICTORIA
•BETC loses
power & Br
govt takes
over
• Queen Victoria
becomes
Empress

31. •Brit rules
through a
VICEROY-
governor
who
represents
monarch

32. •Benefits of Brit rule
included:
• order, stability, new
school system, RRs,
telegraphs, & trains for
transportation of goods
& people.

33. •Problems caused:
•Manufactured goods
destroy local industry
•grow cotton, not food,
• Brits get best jobs
•No respect for culture
•Corrupt tax
collectors

34. INDIAN NATIONAL
CONGRESS
•Indian
nationalists
want reform &
meet in 1885
to form Indian
National
Congress.
•(educated in colonial
schools)

35. TAJ MAHAL

36. INDIA NATIONAL
CONGRESS
•INC want
share in
governing
process &
Indian
independence

37. •Hindu majority & Muslim
minority.
•Muslims want separate
Muslim League.
•Afraid Hindus will
overrun all others.

38. MOHANDA GANDHI
•1915-
Mohandas
Gandhi, lawyer,
studied in
London
• saw racism
against Indians.
•Wanted India’s
independence.

39. INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
•Led marches &
boycotts.
•used traditional
Indian dress,
language, seen as
a spiritual leader
•Helps get
independence in
1947.