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Monday Bell Work

MME 197-198 (1-5) Self Rule For British Colonies
Tuesday Bell Work
MME 203-204 (1-5) The Scramble for Africa
Wednesday
1. How did a small number of European states
achieve control over most of the world by the
end of this era?
2. How did the colonial experience compare in
different regions of the world?

Agenda
1. Bell work put it into your notes

What was the White Mans Burden?

2. Name the two main resources people
wanted and why they wanted them.
2. Notes You will be writing down the Bolded
Black Lettering
3. Crash Course Imperialism in Asia
4. Continue notes
1.

Agenda
1. Bell work put it into your notes

What is imperialism?
2. What is the difference between settlement
colonies and dependent colonies?
2. Crash Course World Wide Imperialism 13:46
3. Notes You will be writing down the Bolded
Black Lettering
4. Crash Course US Imperialism 14:04
1.

Imperialism

Unit Learning Goals

1. LG: Students will be able to explain and understand why
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nations would feel the need to imperialize other nations.

LG: Students will be able to analyze historical maps and
other evidence to explain the causes and global
consequences of nineteenth-century imperialism.
LG: Students will be able to analyze the shift in the
worldwide population during nineteenth-century
imperialism.
LG: Students will be able to describe the connection
between imperialism and racism.
LG: Students will be able to explain the positive and
negative effects of imperialism.

Agenda
1. Notes You will be writing down the Bolded

Black Lettering

Imperialism
6. 2 .4 : A N A LY Z E T H E P O LI TI C A L,
E C O N O M I C , A N D S O C I A L C AUS E S A N D
C O N S E QU E N C E S O F I M P E R I A LI S M BY
US I N G H I S T OR I C A L A N D M O D E R N M A P S
A N D O T H E R E V I D E N C E TO A N A LY Z E A N D
E X P L A I N T H E C AUS E S A N D GLO BA L
C O N S E QU E N C E S O F TH E 1 9 T H C E N TU RY
IM P E R IA L IS M .
E U R O P E , J A PA N , I N D IA , A F RI C A , C E N TR A L
A S IA , A N D E A S T A S I A .

Modern Imperialism
The years between 1870 & 1914 were the height of

the age of imperialism.

Imperialism: is when one country takes
control of another country for its natural
resources

Reasons: trade/new markets for manufactured goods,

colonies used for naval bases, and colonies for raw
materials, to spread Christianity.
Ideological reasoning: U.S. for example believed that
is was their job to Protect the free world

Modern Imperialism
Bad Reasons: Racism, showing

physical dominance & Greed.

The White Mans Burden Poem by
Rudyard Kipling 1899
The

idea that non-western people needed

religion and civilization from westerners.

White Mans Burden

The United States and The Philippine Islands. In this

poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the burden of

empire, as had Britain and other European nations.
Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president
and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his
friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it
was rather poor poetry, but good sense from the
expansion point of view.

The White Mans Burden

Send forth the best ye breed

Take up the White Mans burden

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

And reap his old reward:

To wait in heavy harness

The hate of those ye guard

The blame of those ye better

On fluttered folk and wild

The cry of hosts ye humour

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

Take up the White Mans burden

In patience to abide

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple

An hundred times made plain

To seek anothers profit

And work anothers gain

(Ah slowly) to the light:

Our loved Egyptian night?

Take up the White Mans burden

Have done with childish days
The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!

Pears Soap
Is a potent factor
in brightening the
dark corners of the
earth as
civilization
advances, while
amongst the
cultured of all
nations it holds the
highest place- it is
ideal toilet soap

Europeans
Many Europeans agreed with this idea.

Thought non-Western people were primitive

half devil and half child
Used burden as justification to impose their values.
Missionaries
Church members were sent to many countries to
promote Christianity.
Built schools, churches, hospitals
Taught reading and writing
medicine hygiene, sanitation

Types
Settlement Colonies
These were large

groups of people
from one country
living together in a
new place.
Example: America,
Australia

Dependent Colonies
few European

officials ruled the

non-European
people.
Example: India

Types of Control
Europeans believed in Protectorates.

Protectorates: local ruler kept his title, but the

Europeans controlled the leader.

Spheres of Influence: is an area in which one

nation had a special interest. Outside nations

respected this and stayed out.

Nationalism
Nations believed that colonial expansion was the

only way to gain respect. (1870- 1914)

This was a great way to gain troops for their armies.
Increased ship production to protect colonies

Needed to create coal stations for navies

Imperialism would lead to world-wide

conflict.

Economic Motives
With the industrial revolution,

there was a large population

increase.
Population doubled between
1800 and 1900
Industrialization created jobs
People would leave farms for factories

Economic Motives
Industrialized nations needed a lot of raw

materials.
Places they took them from
Africa: Copper & Rubber
Asia: Tea & Spice
Looked for new markets to sell items
Asia
Africa
Latin America

Economic Motives
Europeans and Americans would try to

persuade cultures to change.

A way to influence them in buying industrialized
goods

Essential Questions
What is the goal of imperialism?
2. What social causes and
consequences are brought to
countries because of
imperialism?
3. What are the global causes or
consequences that were a result
of the 19th century imperialism?
1.

MME 209-210 British Imperialism

Get out questions 1-4 page 482 Turn them in
Get out Imperialism handout & we will go over it
Notes Scramble for Africa
Questions 1-4 page 489 Chapter 17 Section 4
E- Questions
1.

2.

How does imperialism affect rich and

poor nations?
Why would nations want land in Africa?

Agenda
MME 209-210 British Imperialism

MME 211-212 Imperialism in South East

Asia
Notes
Video Over African Imperialism
Tomorrow

Review
Test Friday over imperialism and nationalism.

European Claims
SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
EUROPEAN LEADERS
TAKING A SLICE FROM
AFRICA FOR THEIR OWN
PURPOSE.

Motives
Global dominance: Desire to establish global

empire and overseas colonies were a means

to do that
Racism: Belief in Darwin's theories of
natural selection and survival of the fittest
made Europeans think they were superior to
all other cultures

Motives
Technology: Development of the following

technologies were crucial to conquest of the world.

Penetration: Quinine to cure malaria and steamships
to rapidly access interior regions of countries
Weapons: Rapid-fire rifles and machine guns
Consolidation: waterways like Suez Canal,
steamship lines, cables and railroads allowed
Europeans to stay in closer contact and gain
easier access to their holdings

Map Concepts
What European nation controlled much of

West Africa?
Only two nations would stay independent in
1900

Sudan
Fashoda Crisis

dispute between
France and Great
Britain over the
Sudan

Is force needed for

expansion?

Becoming civilized
is such a brutal
process.

Congo
King Leopold II of Belgium
Carved out personal colony of 900,000

square miles
Only cared about personal wealth
Sold business people the rights to take raw
materials
Rubber
Leopold II used slave labor
1908 turned private colony over to Belgium

King Leopold II
Founder and sole owner of

the Congo Free State

After a number of unsuccessful
schemes for colonies in Africa or
Asia, in 1876 he organized a
private holding company
disguised as an
international scientific and
philanthropic association,
which he called the
International African Society.

Congo
Reports of outrageous exploitation and

widespread human rights abuses (including

enslavement and mutilation of the native
population), especially in the rubber industry, led
to an international protest movement in the early
1900s. Forced labor was extorted from the natives.
Estimates of the death toll range from two to
15 million, and many historians consider this
as a genocide.

Effect of Imperialism on Africa

Europeans controlled the lives of the people and the

government.
Europeans believed that these countries could
not rule themselves.
Paternalism: Europeans governed their
colonies in the same way that parents guide
their children.
Benefits

New ways of farming

Medicine
Roads, railroads, communication

The French hoped for assimilation.

Assimilation: when people give up their own

culture completely and adopt another

culture.
Most Africans did not accept European Culture.

Agenda
Bell Work
1.
2.
3.

Who was King Leopold II and what did he do?

What is assimilation?
What is paternalism?

Finish Notes over Imperialism

Short video over African Imperialism
Imperialism overview handout with 5

questions.

Asian
EXPANSION

British Imperialism
India: would be controlled by England

Soldiers would rebel and it would be broke up into 550 states

Positives in India:

Roads, factories, hospitals and schools were built.

Missionary work & Trade

British Rule
They believed in the Roman style of ruling
Divide and Conquer
Find Princes who will do what you ask & provide
money to keep them in power.

The British East India Company will increase

trade between Britain and India.

Southeast Asia
Great Britains claim to fame concerning

imperialism was that the Sun never set on

their empire.
Burma, Singapore
Used this land to protect shipping routes
Singapore- The British took over the island and
used it as a protector island for their trade routes.
Would become a naval base

Southeast Asia
France: Thailand
France wanted to take over Thailand to make naval
base.

To much work to defeat the Siamese

British would help the Siamese
Agreement between the 3 countries would lead to the end of
Imperialism.

U.S. Imperialism
Wanted to find islands that would be a

perfect fit for coaling stations & arms depots.

Samoa Islands, Philippines, Hawaiian Islands &
Guam
Hawaii: United States wanted to take the
sugarcane and pineapple plantations over.
U.S. forces Queen Liliuokalani to step down
and Hawaii would be annexed into the U.S., if
not they would use force.

U.S.
Hawaii: was a great place for naval base, trade

station and coaling station.

Philippines & Guam: Spain was in control and the
U.S. wanted the islands, so they attacked them.
After the war with the Spaniards, the U.S.
had to fight the Filipinos. The war lasted 3
years and in 1902 the U.S. had control of the
islands.

U.S. & Japan

Japan: Mathew Perry in 1853 forces Japan to

open up trade and coaling stations to the U.S.

This would lead to Japan being the only Asian
nation to imperialize
Japan would become a modern country

Latin
American
IMPERIALISM

Economic Imperialism
To gain control of Latin America, Europeans

and Americans would invest in plantations,

textile factories, mining & railroads.
Problem: the profited money would leave
Latin America and the investor would
become rich, while L.A. would become poor.
If L.A. countries needed money they would barrow
it from companies.
Companies would have to ask the armies to attack
L.A. for repayment.

Spanish-American War
Spain controlled Cuba for many years and

in 1898 the U.S. felt Cuba should be free.

U.S. traded with Cuba
U.S. ship explodes in harbor & they blame Spain
U.S. declares war on Spain
War

is over in less than a year

Gain control of Cuba, Puerto Rico &
Philippines

Cuba
U.S.
Built

schools
Built Roads
Improved Health Care
Platt Amendment
Cuba would have a constitution and be
free
U.S. for helping them would always have a
naval base there Guantanamo Bay.

Panama
United States would force Panama into a deal for

land to create the Panama Canal which would cut

down travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Lasting Effects
Many African & Asian nations are based on the

former colonial boundaries.

Imperialism affected almost the entire continent of
Africa
U.S. would take control of Alaska from Russia.

Agenda
Tomorrow

Experience Panama Mega-structures Panama Canal by

National Geographic