Rudyard Kipling The White Man’s Burden. Social Darwinism Imperialism Breeds Racism.

Rudyard Kipling

• The White Man’s Burden

Social DarwinismImperialism Breeds Racism

EGYPT

• Fall of Ottoman Empire• Muhammad Ali “Father of Modern

Egypt”• Economic and Political Reform• Increased foreign relationships• “Westernize” to fend off imperialism• Muhammad’s death= Fall of Egypt • French investors• British “protectorate”• Suez Canal

Economic

Imperialism

“Yankee Imperialism”

• 1823 Monroe Doctrine• US to protect business in Mexico.

Europeans not to Colonize the Americas.

• 1853 Open Japanese Ports• 1889 Spanish American War

• US gains Cuba and pays 2 million for Spain to “hand over” the Philippines

• 1901 Platt Amendment• US establishes naval bases in Cuba

• 1914 Panama Canal• US helps Panamanians defeat the

Columbians, but then steals their land

Economic Imperialism

Humanitarian Imperialism

Intercontinental Trade

• Suez Canal• Egypt• British Protectorate

• Panama Canal• Panama• US protectorate

Imperialism in Asia

China• Qing Dynasty • Opium Trade• 1st Opium War• Treaty of Nanking 1842

• Hong Kong surrendered• An indemnity of $100 million• Open four large cities to trade

• Open Door Policy• Partition of China

Economic Imperialism

Self Preservation

Imperialism in Asia

• Open Door Policy

• Boxer Rebellion• Nationalist movement• Anti foreign/Anti Christian

Japanese Imperialism

• Japan and China 1500= “Isolationism”

• US forces Japan to open Ports in 1853-4

• $ appeals to the ruling classes

• Sino-Japanese War-

• Russo-Japanese War

Imperialism in India• British East India Company• Sepoys= Indian soldiers• Sepoy Rebellion- “Great Rebellion”

• Muslim & Hindus forced against beliefs• Indians lost, British increase taxes

• 1858 British Parliament controls India from London• All white civil servants working in India (3,500)• India serves as a “gate” to China

Imperialism in India

• Railways and Roads• Cash Crops• Massive Deforestation• Better Healthcare

British “Modernization”

Imperialism in Africa

Imperialism in Africa• The African “fever”• European powers stepping on each other• Scramble for land• Scramble for gold, diamonds, exotic• Berlin Conference 1884• Ethiopia & Liberia = Free

Berlin Conference

Imperialism in Africa

• South Africa• Afrikaners v. Zulu• British v. Zulu• British v. Dutch Settlers• 1910 British Apartheid Government established

Boer War

Imperialism in Africa

• Cecil Rhodes• De Beers Mining Co. 1880

• Maxim Machine Gun• Sierra Leone