Imperialism Motives & Justifications

Analyzing Motives of Imperialism

GOAL: You will be analyzing written and visual artifacts depicting European motives for empire building in the late 19th century.

Analyzing Motives of Imperialism

• ECONOMIC: • POLITICAL:• REGLIGIOUS:• EXPLORATORY:• IDEOLOGICAL:

Economic Motives of Imperialism

• ECONOMIC: –Make $$–Control foreign trade –Discover new markets –Raw materials and cheap labor– Investments–Export technology.

Political Motives of Imperialism

• POLITICAL: –Gain power–Compete with other countries–Expand territory–Exercise military force–Gain prestige–Boost national pride & security

Religious Motives of Imperialism

• RELIGIOUS: –Spread Christianity–Spread European, American, and Western values and moral beliefs–Educate people from other cultures

Exploratory Motives of Imperialism

• EXPLORATORY: –Explore the “unknown”–Conduct scientific research–Medical searches/find medical remedies–Adventure–Investigate “unknown” cultures.

Ideological Motives of Imperialism

• IDEOLOGICAL: – Cultural values– Belief in Race superiority (racism)– Belief in duty to “civilize” people in

other parts of the world– Belief that all great nations should have

empires– Social Darwinish-“Survival of the

Fittest”- only the strongest nations will survive.

Economic Motives of Imperialism

• ECONOMIC: –Make $$–Control foreign trade –New markets –Raw materials and cheap labor– Investments–Export technology

PHOTO #1: Open-shaft diamond mining in Kimberly, South Africa, 1872

PHOTO #2: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, 1925

PHOTO #3: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

PHOTO #4: Quote from Henry

Stanley in 1882

PHOTO #5: Africans bringing ivory to the wagon in South Africa, c. 1860

PHOTO #6: Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration

PHOTO #7: An advertisement for

Pears’ Soap from the 1890s, and one

stanza of the British poet Rudyard

Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden,

written in 1899

PHOTO #8: Bagged

groundnuts in pyramid stacks in

West Africa

PHOTO #9: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

PHOTO #10: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s

PHOTO #11: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to

Cairo” 1892

PHOTO #12: Epitaph and quote from

missionary and explorer David

Livingstone