Big Questions

1
White Mans Burden Take up the white mans burden
- Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your
sons to exile To serve your captives need To
wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild
- Your new-caught sullen peoples Half-devil and
half-child. Rudyard Kipling
2
Todays Big Questions

• What forces were shaping Africa before 1880?
• Which European countries carved up Africa?
• How did Africans resist European imperialism?

3
The Great Land Grab in Africa
Africa, 1914
Africa, 1850
Free Africa
European
European Possessions
Free Africa
Possessions
4
Cause and effect diagrams

• Working alone or with a partner read chapter 27
  section 1 (pp. 773-778) and construct a cause and
  effect chart about the scramble for Africa.
• Causes are the reasons why Europeans carved up
  Africa
• Effects are what resulted in Africa as a result
  of being carved up
• When you are finished answer each of the Big
  Questions in complete sentences
• Homework Answer questions 1-8 on page 778
• Big Questions, Cause and Effect Charts, and
  homework should all be turned in together

5
Cause and effect diagrams

• Recognizing cause and effect will help you better
  understand history.
• Certain words are often used when causes are
  being discussed such as - because, due to, and
  on account of.
• Effects can be identified by so, thus,
  therefore, as a result of.

6
Todays Big Questions

• What forces were shaping Africa before 1800?
• Which European countries carved up Africa?
• How did Africans resist European imperialism?

7
Cause Slave trade Explorers set out to map
Africa Missionaries seek to convert Africans to
Christianity Belgium sends explorers to the Congo
River basin to arrange trade treaties with
African leaders.
Effect Britain, France, and Germany, join Belgium
in staking claims on Africa
8

• Algeria
• Population 31,736,053
• Life Expectancy 69.95 years
• Literacy Rate 61.6
• Angola
• Population 10,366,031
• Life Expectancy 38.59 years
• Literacy Rate 42
• Benin
• Population 6,100,799
• Life Expectancy 38.59 years
• Literacy Rate 37
• Botswana
• Population 1,576,470
• Life Expectancy 39.27 years
• Literacy Rate 19
• Burkina Faso
• Population 10,891,159
• Life Expectancy

9

• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Population 2,583,198
• Life Expectancy 48.75 years
• Literacy Rate 75
• Republic of the Congo
• Population 2,830,961
• Life Expectancy 47.43 years
• Literacy Rate 74.9
• Cote divoire
• Population 15,446,231
• Life Expectancy 44.81 years
• Literacy Rate 40.1
• Djibouti
• Population 440,727
• Life Expectancy 50.82 years
• Literacy Rate 75

10

• Egypt
• Population 66,050,004
• Life Expectancy 61.75 years
• Literacy Rate 51.4
• Equatorial Guinea
• Population 454,001
• Life Expectancy 55.79 years
• Literacy Rate 78
• Eritrea
• Population 3,842,436
• Life Expectancy 55.79 years
• Literacy Rate 20
• Ethiopia
• Population 58,390,351
• Life Expectancy 46.62 years
• Literacy Rate 35.5

11

• Gabon
• Population 1,207,844
• Life Expectancy 50.08 years
• Literacy Rate 63
• Gambia
• Population 1,248,085
• Life Expectancy 53.2 years
• Literacy Rate 39
• Guinea
• Population 7,477,110
• Life Expectancy 45.6 years
• Literacy Rate 36
• Guinea-Bissau
• Population 1,178,584
• Life Expectancy 38.4 years
• Literacy Rate 55

12

• Kenya
• Population 23,337,071
• Life Expectancy 58.4 years
• Literacy Rate 78.1
• Lesotho
• Population 2,089,829
• Life expectancy 58 years
• Literacy Rate 71
• Liberia
• Population 2,771,901
• Life Expectancy 51 years
• Literacy Rate 38.3
• Libya
• Population 5,690,727
• Life Expectancy 75.5 years
• Literacy Rate 76.2

13

• Malawi
• Population 9,840,474
• Life Expectancy 43.2 years
• Literacy Rate 56
• Mali
• Population 10,108,569
• Life Expectancy49.6 years
• Literacy Rate 31
• Mauritania
• Population 2,511,473
• Life Expectancy 50.8 years
• Literacy Rate 38
• Morocco
• Population 29,114,497
• Life Expectancy 69.1 years
• Literacy Rate 43.7

14

• Mozambique
• Population18,641,469
• Life Expectancy 46.5 years
• Literacy Rate 40
• Namibia
• Population 1,622,328
• Life Expectancy 53.5 years
• Literacy Rate 76
• Niger
• Population 9,671,848
• Life Expectancy 46.6 years
• Literacy Rate 14
• Nigeria
• Population 110,532,242
• Life Expectancy52.8 years
• Literacy Rate 51.1

15

• Rwanda
• Population 7,956,172
• Life Expectancy 39.2 years
• Literacy Rate 60.5
• Senegal
• Population 9,723,149
• Life Expectancy 65.56 years
• Literacy Rate 33
• Seychelles
• Population 78,641
• Life Expectancy 70.69 years
• Literacy Rate 84
• Sierre Leone
• Population 54,080,004
• Life Expectancy 45.6 years
• Literacy Rate 31

16

• Somalia
• Population 6,841,695
• Life Expectancy 46.6years
• Literacy Rate 24
• South Africa
• Population 42,834,520
• Life Expectancy 48.09 years
• Literacy Rate 81.8
• Sudan
• Population 33,550,552
• Life Expectancy 55.54
• Literacy Rate 46.1
• Swaziland
• Population 996,462
• Life Expectancy 38.62 years
• Literacy Rate 77

17

• Tanzania
• Population30,608,729
• Life Expectancy 41.7 years
• Literacy Rate 67.8
• Togo
• Population 4,905,827
• Life Expectancy 54.35 years
• Literacy Rate 52
• Tunisia
• Population 9,380,404
• Life Expectancy 72.85 years
• Literacy Rate 66.7

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• Uganda
• Population 22,167,195
• Life Expectancy 36.69
• Literacy Rate 61.8
• Zaire
• Population 49,000,511
• Life Expectancy 46.7 years
• Literacy Rate 77.3
• Zambia
• Population 9,770,199
• Life Expectancy 37.29 years
• Literacy Rate 78.2
• Zimbabwe
• Population 11,365,366
• Life Expectancy 37.13 years
• Literacy Rate 85