Analyzing Imperial Motives Open-Shaft Mining S. Africa Economic- Exploitation of natural resources Ideological- Europeans treating Africans as inferior.

Analyzing Imperial Motives

Open-Shaft Mining S. Africa

• Economic- Exploitation of natural resources

• Ideological- Europeans treating Africans as inferior

A Methodist Sunday School, Angola

• Religious- Christian Values & Beliefs

• Ideological- Teaching European Customs & Beliefs.

Germans Taking Possession of Cameroon

• Political- Flag = national identity

• Exploratory- new, foreign lands

Quote from Henry Stanley, 1882

• Ideological- “civilize” Africa

Africans Brining Ivory to Wagons, South Africa

• Economic- Ivory Trade = big $$$

Map of Central Africa

• Exploratory- interest in unexplored territories.

Ad for Pears Soap

• Ideological- belief that people needed to be cleansed through European Civilization.

• Economic- Its an Ad.

Pupil Nurses in Burma, 1888

• Ideological- teaching European values

• Religious- educating people of other cultures

Chinese being savaged by

European powers

• Political • Economic• Religious• Ideological

Bagged Ground Nuts, West Africa

• Economic

French Capture Saigon, Vietnam

• Political-military force

British Lipton Tea Ad.

• Economic

• Political- gaining prestige from trade.

The Rhodes Colossus

• Political- From Cairo to Cape Town

• Exploratory

Epitaph from Livingstone

• Religious

• Exploratory

Suez Canal, Egypt 1870

• Economic • Political

• Analyze the Consequences of New Imperialism for European nations and those people conquered by Europeans. 1-2 Paragraphs. Add to chapter 27 Outline notes.

• British claims that they will build an empire from Cairo to Cape town .

• Establishing a school in the Congo to help spread Christianity

• Imprisoning tribal leaders who refuse to adopt European customs.

• Exploitation of diamond mines in South Africa.

• “We wish to bring European values to corners that have yet to be discovered”.

• “Europe should supply the people of Africa with all the technology to help make Africans more civilized”.

• U.S. construction of the Panama Canal in 1904

• “The Chinese are heathens! They must accept Christianity in order to be saved.

• “If Africans were capable of governing themselves they would not have been so easily conquered by Europeans”.

• When it comes to imperialism, only the strongest will survive.

• Colonies are a good source for raw materials, labor and trade.

• Germany must acquire more colonies in order to be as powerful as Great Britain.

• “The White Man’s Burden” is to teach Africans how to be more productive in their country.

• Ridding Africa of the slave trade is the priority of missionaries.

• We wish to make contact with unknown cultures and people, investigate the lands where they live and steal it from them