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Title: Imperialism


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Imperialism
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Motives
  • Economic Expansion
  • Merchants, entrepreneurs advocated imp.
  • Obtaining raw goods
  • Colonies provide markets?

NO
  • Political
  • Geographical/military reasons
  • Diffuses internal tensions
  • Nationalism
  • Humanitarian and religious concerns
  • Missionary campaigns
  • The White Mans Burden

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India
  • British East India Company
  • Ran India with British approval
  • Sepoys
  • Controlled most all of India
  • Sepoy Rebellion/ Mutiny (1857-58)
  • Lee-Enfield Rifle
  • Delhi seized, retaken by British
  • Results
  • Imperial Rule
  • Inclusion of Indians
  • Severe British reprisals
  • Lack of nationalist movement

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Africa
  • European intrusion before mid-1800s
  • European intrusion after mid-1800s
  • Br., Fr., Port., Sp., Germ., It., Blg.
  • Slave trade declines
  • Independent states
  • South Africa
  • Zulu
  • Shaka (1810s 1828)
  • Mfecane
  • Zulu War (1879)

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Completely Unexpected Reading Quiz
  • 1. This 1848 edict forced Western property rights
    on Hawaii

A. Great Mahele
  1. Great Mahele
  2. Khoikhoi
  3. Great Trek
  4. Boer War

2. South Africa is most accurately a
C. contested settler colonies
3. What group of Europeans were the first to
settle in Cape Town in what is now South
Africa? 4. Pacific peoples driven, suffered,
farmed, driven, fought, but survive to
this very day 5. King Kamehameha was encouraged
by the British to welcome Western influence to
allow his nation of ________ to flourish.
  1. Princely state
  2. Tropical dependency
  3. Contested settler colony
  4. White dominion

Dutch/Boers/Netherlanders
Maori
Hawaii
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Africa, contd
  • Boers Dutch settlers in southern Africa
    interior
  • Afrikaans
  • British Dutch clash
  • Great Trek 1830s
  • 1850s- Boer Republics Orange Free State ("Oranje
    Vrystaat" ) Transvaal
  • Gold diamonds
  • Cecil Rhodes
  • Boer War (1899-1902)

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Oceania
  • James Cook- 1760s 1770s.
  • Diseases Aborigines/ Maori
  • British convicts
  • Gold, 1851 ( 1860)
  • Colonial governments
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