Imperialists Divide Africa

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Imperialists Divide Africa
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European Desire

• Gold and Ivory
• Steamboat permits entrance into Africa
• African successful
• Keep Europeans out of Africa for 400 years
• By 1880 Europeans only control 10

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Congo

• Dr. Livingston travels within
• Henry Stanley launches search party
• 1822 Stanley signs treaty with Congo chiefs
  giving King Leopold II control
• Terrible treatment
• 1908 Belgium takes colony

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Imperialist Motives

• Raw materials, national pride, economic
  competition
• Racism
• Social Darwinism
• Missionaries

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Enabling Forces

• Maxim guns
• Railroads and steamships
• Discovery of quinine
• Different languages and cultures prevent unity

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Race for Africa

• Diamonds discovered 1867
• Berlin Conference (1884-85)
• Claim land and then show control
• 1914 Liberia and Ethiopia free
• Cash Crops
• Peanuts, palm-oil, cocoa, rubber
• Minerals

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Africans, Dutch and British Clash

• Zulu chief Shaka creates centralized state
• Dutch Boers take control of Cape of Good Hope
• Boers Great Trek
• 1899 Battle
• Boers vs. British
• Union of South Africa