impearialism in africa

Industiralization

Using factories to mass-produce products from natural resources.

Higher supply and demand

Need for natural recources

Nationalism

Competition among European nations to industrialize, seise colonies, gain power

Old Imperialism

Major emphasis on trade relations and missionary activity

Little effort to settle areas or control gov….

Control confined to coastal areas where trade occured

New Imperialism

More than just trase - want of direct control over economy and gov.

Every continent touched by this

Major powers - European powers

Practice of extending power of one nation over political, economic and social life of another

Social Darwinism

A social theory that uses survival of the fittest and it applies to human society

Europeans=superior and led to more seperation of race

The White Man's Burden

Belief that christian region and european forms of gov. and education and law would improve the lives of people

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

David Livingstone

A missionary from Scotland who traveled to Africa in hopes to spread Christianity

Henry Stanley

An American newspaper worker looking for David Livingstone

He searched all of Africa and signed treaties

Boer War/Boers

Also the South African War, this war between the British and Boers was a big war with rebellion

Berlin Conference

A meeting with European countries, deciding how to split the colonization of Africa

Scramble for Africa

Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.

Direct control

Control that was very clear and was left to a source of power, not the people

Indirect control

A type of control relying on existing political rulers

Paternalism

A policy where Europeans gave people the necessities but no individual rights

Assimilation

A foreign policy that was based on the idea that everyone wanted to be like the french

King Leopold

King of Belgium who began imperialistic trade inside of Africa which resulted in the Scramble for Africa.