Analyzing Imperial Motives
Dec 18, 2015
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
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
• 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