Scramble for Africa

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Scramble for Africa

• Unit 4 Imperialism

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Scramble for Africa
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Development in African Regions

• North
• West
• East
• South

• Ottoman control decline
• Islamic reform movement
• Slave trade continued
• Zulu nation conquered neighbors

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Euro contact increases
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Belgium in Africa

• Arranged treaties w/African leaders
• Monopolized Congo
• Scramble for Africa

• King Leopold II

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Boer War

• Causes

• England dedicated to expansion
• British settlers in Dutch colonies outnumbered
  Boers
• British gained control of area ? new language
  culture
• British outlawed slavery
• Boers left founded Transvaal Orange Free
  State
• Diamonds were discovered in the Boers

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Boer War

• Outcomes

• The Boers resisted British victory practiced
  guerilla warfare
• British arrested imprisoned Boers
• Boers finally gave up (1910)
• Orange Free State Transvaal became part of
  British Africa
• Created the Union of South Africa

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Berlin Conference
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• Berlin Conference

• Free state of Congo
• Free trade in Congo
• basin
• Niger Congo River
• free ship traffic
• Prohibition of slave trade
• If claim land, need est gov offices

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• Impact of Berlin Conference

• Scramble for Africa

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• Only independent Nations

• Ethiopia Liberia

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• Scars left on Africa

• Created problems between African tribes
• Forced ethnic groups into same nation
• Destroyed African culture
• In many parts, segregation class system based
  on color were introduced
• Africa has yet to recover ? corruption,
  instability, violence authoritative regimes are
  common

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