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Title: Imperialists Divide Africa


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Imperialists Divide Africa
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European Desire
  • Gold and Ivory
  • Steamboat permits entrance into Africa
  • African successful
  • Keep Europeans out of Africa for 400 years
  • By 1880 Europeans only control 10

3
Congo
  • Dr. Livingston travels within
  • Henry Stanley launches search party
  • 1822 Stanley signs treaty with Congo chiefs
    giving King Leopold II control
  • Terrible treatment
  • 1908 Belgium takes colony

4
Imperialist Motives
  • Raw materials, national pride, economic
    competition
  • Racism
  • Social Darwinism
  • Missionaries

5
Enabling Forces
  • Maxim guns
  • Railroads and steamships
  • Discovery of quinine
  • Different languages and cultures prevent unity

6
Race for Africa
  • Diamonds discovered 1867
  • Berlin Conference (1884-85)
  • Claim land and then show control
  • 1914 Liberia and Ethiopia free
  • Cash Crops
  • Peanuts, palm-oil, cocoa, rubber
  • Minerals

7
Africans, Dutch and British Clash
  • Zulu chief Shaka creates centralized state
  • Dutch Boers take control of Cape of Good Hope
  • Boers Great Trek
  • 1899 Battle
  • Boers vs. British
  • Union of South Africa
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