1. Analyzing Documents of Imperialism

2. As you look at each image identify it as an example of one or more of the five motives for imperialism. Write a brief statement identifying why you made the choice you did. If you have forgotten the motives for imperialism you are a bad human! Nevertheless, I have included them for you on your paper. Here they are again, just in case you are confused:

3. Economic: the desire to make money, expand foreign trade, get raw materials and cheap labor, create new markets for products, and export industrial technology and transportation methods

4. Exploratory: the desire to explore “unknown” or uncharted territory, conduct medical and scientific research, go on an adventure, and investigate “new” lands and cultures

5. Ideological: the desire to act on the idea that the white race was superior and so Europeans needed to spread their culture, “civilize” people in other “primitive” parts of the world, build large empires, and take over small countries because only the strong can survive (Social Darwinism)

6. Political: the desire to make a nation more powerful by competing with other European nations, expanding territory and establishing colonies, exercising military force, and boosting national pride (nationalism)

7. Religious: the desire to spread Christianity and protect the missionaries who work to do so, to educate people of other cultures, and to end the slave trade in Africa

8. Slide 1 Diamond Mining in South Africa (1872)

9. Slide 2 Sunday School in Angola (1925)

10. Slide 3 Germans Taking Possession of Cameroon (1881)

11. “As yet the Congo basin is a blank, fruitless waste, a desolate and unproductive area…. It has been our purpose to fill this blank life, to redeem this waste, to plant and sow that the dark man may gather, to vivify the wide, wild lands so long forgotten by Europe. But cursed be he who, animated by causeless jealousy and a spirit of mischief, will compel us to fire our station, destroy our work so conspicuously begun, and abandon Africa to its pristine helplessness and savagery.” -- Henry Morton Stanley (1882)

12. Slide 4 Bringing Ivory to the Wagons in South Africa (1860)

13. Slide 5 Map of Dr. Livingstone’s Endeavors

14. Slide 6 The White Man’s Burden By Rudyard Kipling (1899) Take up the White Man’s Burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile -- To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered fold and wild -- You new-caught sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

15. Slide 7 Dr. Maria Douglas and Her Burmese Students (1888)

16. Slide 8 The Heathen Chinee By Bret Harte (1870) The Heathen Chinee! What a channel for Christian Expansion is he. The Ho! For the Flowery Land of the East, Like vultures we’ll swoop on the promising feast. Commission your Navies, ye Nations so free, To bear the true light to the Heathen Chinee. If Russia ‘makes converts,’ it’s perfectly clear We need for ‘converting’ a well-defined sphere; If Germany’s ‘missions’ hold meetings for prayer, So Christian a work ‘tis our duty to share. Incidentally, too, there is cash to be made; There’s naught like Religion to stimulate Trade.

17. Slide 9 Stacks of Bagged Groundnuts in West Africa

18. The Partition of China (Late 1800s)

19. Slide 10 French Capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1857)

20. Slide 11 Advertisement for British Lipton Tea (1890s)

21. Slide 12 The Rhodes Colossus Striding from Cape Town to Cairo (1892)

22. Epitaph on the Tombstone of Dr. Livingstone (1873)

23. Slide 14 Imperial Yacht Traveling Through the Suez Canal (1870)