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Color and Label

your Partition of
Africa Mapusing
this map as a
guide.
Aim: Why did the
Europeans partition Africa?
After Todays Lesson I will be able to..
1) Discuss the role explorers played in mapping Africa
2) Describe the scramble for colonies

Missionaries
Christian and Protestant missionaries
followed explorers all through Africa,
They sought to win the African natives
to Christianity.

Mungo Park and Richard Burton- mapped out the

course and source of the great Congo, Nile, and Niger
Rivers.

! Set up Churches, Clinics, and Schools for the natives.

! Paternalistic View of Africans- Saw them as Children in
need of guidance.

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Dr. Livingstone- best known explorer/missionary, spent

30 years exploring the African continent. Was friendly
and well-liked by the natives, wrote much about the
African cultures.

King Leopold II of Belgium

Hired Henry Stanley to Explore the Congo River basin
and arrange trade treaties with African leaders.
Leopold IIs activities in the Congo Set off a
scramble by other European Nations rivaling for
land in Africa.

Henry Stanley- British journalist trekked through

central Africa exploring and looking for
Livingstone Famous quote: Dr. Livingstone I
presume?

!To avoid bloodshed over African territory, European nations meet

at the Berlin Conference.
!No Africans were invited.
!European powers recognized Leopold IIs private claims to the
Congo, but called for free trade on the Congo and Niger Rivers.
!Agreed that no European power could claim any part of Africa
unless they had set up a government office there.

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!Leopold and other wealthy Belgians

exploited the riches of the Congo- Rubber,
Copper, and Ivory.
!Villagers of the Congo worked for almost
nothing. If you refused to work you would be
savagely beaten or your hands or ears
would be amputated by the wealthy
Belgians.

! After hearing of the atrocities of the

Congo, international outrage forced

Leopold to turn over his colony to the
Belgian government.
!The worst of the abuses were ended,
yet the Belgians still exploited the
Congo for their own enrichment.

France
!Ruled a large area in North Africa French colonies along
Mediterranean coast, Tunisia, west and central Africa

Britain acquired the Cape Colony for the Dutch in 1806. The
Boers-Dutch farmers resented British rule, they migrated north
and formed their own republics.

!Invaded and conquered Algeria resulting in thousands of

French and Algerian deaths.

The Boers discovered gold and diamonds in the their

Republics. The British wanted a piece of the riches, this set off
a bitter guerilla war between the Boers and the British, ending
in a British victory.

Britain
!Ruled over smaller scattered areas of Africa compared to
France BUT, these were heavily populated areas with many
rich resources. (South Africa, Egypt)

In 1910 the British united the Cape Colony with former Boer
Republics in to the Union of South Africa. The new constitution
set up a gov.t run by white and laid the foundation for a
system of complete racial segregation.

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!Portuguese- colonies in Angola and Mozambique

!Italy- occupied Libya, controlled territory in the horn
of Africa, southern end of Red Sea
!Germany- took lands in eastern and southwestern

Imagine you were an African native going about

your daily life, when all of a sudden a group of
imperialistic Europeans came into your village.
They speak a foreign language, they are waving
weapons you have never seen before, they are
imposing on your land and your people. How
would you feel? How would you react? Would you
cooperate with the Europeans or rebel against
them?

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